Influence of dynamic compression on directional hearing in the horizontal plane

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 279-285

  Musa Shufani, Sharbal ^a   Walger, Martin ^a   Von Wedel, Hasso ^a   Meister, Hartmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 33748446788     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000215972.68797.5e     Document Type: Article

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