Two-tone suppression of stimulus frequency otoacoustic emissions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1479-1494

  Keefe, Douglas H ^a   Ellison, John C ^a   Fitzpatrick, Denis F ^a   Gorga, Michael P ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; FUNCTION EVALUATION;

STIMULUS FREQUENCY OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS (SFOAE); TWO-TONE SUPPRESSION;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; GROWTH OF SUPPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCTAVE FREQUENCY; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND PRESSURE; SUPPRESSION THRESHOLD; SUPPRESSOR FREQUENCY; TUNING CURVE; TWO TONE SUPPRESSION;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; HUMANS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 40749115491     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2828209     Document Type: Article

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