Temporal integration of the contralateral acoustic-reflex threshold and its age-related changes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1467-1473

  Emmer, Michele B ^a,b   Silman, Shlomo ^a,b   Silverman, Carol A ^b,c,d,e   Levitt, Harry ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX THRESHOLD (ART); AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BROAD-BAND NOISE (BBN) ACTIVATORS; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION;

BIODIVERSITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALIBRATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PRESBYCUSIS; REACTION TIME; REFLEX;

EID: 33748520975     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2221415     Document Type: Article

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