Effects of decreased audibility produced by high-pass maskers in younger and older adults

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 427-433

  Souza, Pamela E ^a   Tremblay, Kelly L ^a   Boike, Kumike T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hearing loss; Masking; Threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149084391     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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