Hearing loss from interrupted, intermittent, and time varying non-Gaussian noise exposure: The applicability of the equal energy hypothesis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2245-2254

  Hamernik, Roger P ^a   Qiu, Wei ^a   Davis, Bob ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ESTIMATION; HEARING AIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EQUAL ENERGY HYPOTHESIS; HEARING LOSS; KURTOSIS STATISTIC; NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE EXPOSURE; SENSORY CELL POPULATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CELL POPULATION; CHINCHILLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HYPOTHESIS; NOISE; NOISE INJURY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY FATIGUE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CELL SURVIVAL; CHINCHILLA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ORGAN OF CORTI; PITCH PERCEPTION; RISK FACTORS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 34848874442     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2775160     Document Type: Article

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