Human evoked cortical activity to signal-to-noise ratio and absolute signal level

Hearing Research

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 15-24

  Billings, Curtis J ^a,b   Tremblay, Kelly L ^a   Stecker, G Christopher ^a   Tolin, Wendy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR REHABILITATIVE AUDITORY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEPs); Event related potentials (ERPs); Hearing aids; N1; Signal to noise ratio (SNR); Signals in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR CONDUCTION; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TYMPANOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67649505438     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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