Low-frequency and high-frequency cochlear nonlinearity in humans

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1671-1680

  Gorga, Michael P ^a   Neely, Stephen T ^a   Dierking, Darcia M ^a   Kopun, Judy ^a   Jolkowski, Kristin ^a   Groenenboom, Kristin ^a   Tan, Hongyang ^a   Stiegemann, Bettina ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DATA COMPRESSION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; HUMAN ENGINEERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

HIGH-FREQUENCY COCHLEAR NONLINEARITY; NOISE LEVELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; COCHLEA; COMPRESSION; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; DYNAMICS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; EAR, MIDDLE; HEARING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 35248827011     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2751265     Document Type: Article

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