Determination of the potential benefit of time-frequency gain manipulation

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 480-492

  Anzalone, Michael C ^a   Calandruccio, Lauren ^b   Doherty, Karen A ^b   Carney, Laurel H ^a,b  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; NOISE REDUCTION; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748523481     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000233891.86809.df     Document Type: Article

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