Evaluation of a second-order directional microphone hearing aid: I. Speech perception outcomes

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-189

  Bentler, Ruth ^a   Palmer, Catherine ^b   Mueller, H Gustav ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Siemens Hearing Instruments ^*

Author keywords

Adaptive directional microphone; Directional; Fixed directional microphone speech perception; Hearing aid; Second order microphone

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROPHONE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOISE REDUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747487893     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.17.3.4     Document Type: Article

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