Stimulus characteristics which lessen the impact of threshold fine structure on estimates of hearing status

Hearing Research

Volumn 283, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 24-32

  Lee, Jungmee ^a   Long, Glenis ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856608809     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2011.11.011     Document Type: Article

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