Reliability of categorical loudness scaling and its relation to threshold

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 567-578

  Al Salim, Sarah C ^a,b   Kopun, Judy G ^b   Neely, Stephen T ^b   Jesteadt, Walt ^b   Stiegemann, Bettina ^b   Gorga, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955780900     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181da4d15     Document Type: Article

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