Uncomfortable loudness levels in experienced unilateral and bilateral hearing aid users: Evidence of adaptive plasticity following asymmetrical sensory input?

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 667-671

  Hamilton, Ann Marie ^a   Munro, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acclimatisation; Central gain process; Functional plasticity; Hearing aid; Reorganisation; Uncomfortable loudness level

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSORY FEEDBACK; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED;

EID: 77955620299     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992021003713114     Document Type: Article

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