Sample discrimination of frequency by hearing-impaired and normal-hearing listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 241-253

  Alexander, Joshua M ^a,b   Lutfi, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LOGARITHMIC SCALES;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 37849047956     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2816415     Document Type: Article

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