Effects of sex, age and hearing asymmetry on the interaural differences of auditory brainstem responses

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-33

  Hwang, J H ^a,b   Chao, J C ^c   Ho, H C ^b   Hsiao, S H ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem responses; Brainstem; Hearing asymmetry; Interaural differences, sex, age; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 37249088264     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: 14219700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107468     Document Type: Article

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