The binaural intelligibility level difference in hearing-impaired listeners: The role of supra-threshold deficits

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 3074-3084

  Goverts, S Theo ^a   Houtgast, Tammo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; EXTERNAL PERTURBATIONS; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; HEARING THRESHOLD; HEARING-IMPAIRED; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; LEVEL DIFFERENCE; LOW SENSITIVITY; REFERENCE DATA; SENSITIVITY APPROACH; TIME DOMAIN;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956253955     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3372716     Document Type: Article

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