Loudness perception in the domestic cat: Reaction time estimates of equal loudness contours and recruitment effects

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 295-308

  May, Bradford J ^a   Little, Nicole ^a   Saylor, Stephanie ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory reaction time; Loudness estimation; Sensorineural hearing loss; Sound exposure

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; LATENT PERIOD; LOUDNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HYPERACUSIS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349089030     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-009-0157-z     Document Type: Article

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