Moderate cochlear hearing loss leads to a reduced ability to use temporal fine structure information

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1055-1068

  Hopkins, Kathryn ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COMPLEX TONES; FORCED-CHOICE TASK; PATTERN CHANGES; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 34547647621     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2749457     Document Type: Article

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