Temporal integration and compression near absolute threshold in normal and impaired ears

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2236-2244

  Plack, Christopher J ^a   Skeels, Vicki ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Hearing Care Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HEARING AIDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

BASILAR-MEMBRANE (BM); IMPAIRED EARS; PURE-TONE SIGNALS; SENSORINEURAL HEARING; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, INNER; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY, OUTER; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECRUITMENT DETECTION, AUDIOLOGIC; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 34848889225     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2769829     Document Type: Article

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