Monaural and binaural loudness of 5- and 200-ms tones in normal and impaired hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3931-3939

  Whilby, Shani ^a   Florentine, Mary ^a   Wagner, Eva ^a   Marozeau, Jeremy ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BINAURAL LOUDNESS; IMPAIRED HEARING; LOUDNESS-MATCHING;

AUDITION;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MONAURAL HEARING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745063618     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2193813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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