The effect of presentation level on the Gaps-In-Noise (GIN©) test

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-150

  Weihing, Jeffrey A ^a   Musiek, Frank E ^a   Shinn, Jennifer Brooke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central auditory processing; Gap detection; Intensity; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY SCREENING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECORDING; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEARING; MALE;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PSYCHOMETRICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947724424     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.18.2.6     Document Type: Article

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