The effects of listening environment and earphone style on preferred listening levels of normal hearing adults using an MP3 player

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 290-297

  Hodgetts, William E ^a,b   Rieger, Jana M ^a,b   Szarko, Ryan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Caritas Health Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34248146040     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3180479399     Document Type: Article

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