What is the role of the medial olivocochlear system in speech-in-noise processing?

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1301-1312

  de Boer, Jessica ^a   Thornton, A Roger D ^a   Krumbholz, Katrin ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory; Auditory brain stem responses; Corticofugal; Efferent; Otoacoustic emissions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; COCHLEA; CONSONANT; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL OLIVOCOCHLEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH IN NOISE PROCESSING; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCHLEA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857274514     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00222.2011     Document Type: Article

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