Hearing aids in the real world: Typical automatic behavior of expansion, directionality, and noise management

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-48

  Banerjee, Shilpi ^a  

^a Starkey Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral agreement; Data logging; Digital noise reduction; Directionality; Expansion; Hearing aids; Noise management

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEVICE THERAPY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AGED; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79953204280     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.22.1.5     Document Type: Article

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