Short-term auditory effects of listening to an MP3 player

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 538-548

  Keppler, Hannah ^a   Dhooge, Ingeborg ^a   Maes, Leen ^a   D'Haenens, Wendy ^a   Bockstael, Annelies ^a   Philips, Birgit ^a   Swinnen, Freya ^a   Vinck, Bart ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MP3 PLAYER; MUSIC; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIMULATOR; SOUND PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MP3-PLAYER; MUSIC;

EID: 77953885807     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2010.84     Document Type: Article

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