Interaural attenuation for Sennheiser HDA 200 circumaural earphones

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 467-471

  Brännström, K Jonas ^a,b   Lantz, Johannes ^b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c GN Otometrics A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Audiometry; Circumaural earphones; Clinical masking; Interaural attenuation; Supra aural earphones

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 77952684945     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992021003663111     Document Type: Article

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