Assessment of central auditory processing in a group of workers exposed to solvents

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1188-1194

  Fuente, Adrian ^a,c   McPherson, Bradley ^a   Muñoz, Verónica ^b   Espina, Juan Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Secretaria Regional Ministerial de Salud Region Metropolitana Gobierno de Chile   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Central auditory processing; Dichotic tests; Filtered speech; Solvent exposure; Speech discrimination in noise

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT; SOLVENT;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TYMPANOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, CENTRAL; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; SOLVENTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33750068595     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480600681585     Document Type: Article

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