Test-retest reliability of the speech-evoked auditory brainstem response

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 346-355

  Song, Judy H ^a   Nicol, Trent ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ABR test retest reliability; BioMARK; Brainstem encoding; Speech evoked ABR; Speech in noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; SPEECH EVOKED AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBCORTEX; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEST TAKING SKILLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650976042     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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