Auditory brainstem response at the detection limit

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 521-531

  Lütkenhöner, Bernd ^a   Seither Preisler, Annemarie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

ABR threshold; AEP; Brainstem auditory evoked potential; Electrophysiological threshold; Hearing threshold; Linearity in the auditory system; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55949104331     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-008-0131-1     Document Type: Article

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