The effect of hearing impairment on localization dominance for single-word stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 312-323

  Akeroyd, Michael A ^a   Guy, Fiona H ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CIRCULAR RING; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; HEARING LOSS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; PRECEDENCE EFFECT; SELF-REPORT; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

LOUDSPEAKERS;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960680630     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3598466     Document Type: Article

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