Contribution of monaural and binaural cues to sound localization in listeners with acquired unilateral conductive hearing loss: Improved directional hearing with a bone-conduction device

Hearing Research

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 9-18

  Agterberg, Martijn J H ^a   Snik, Ad F M ^a   Hol, Myrthe K S ^a   Van Wanrooij, Marc M ^a   Van Opstal, A John ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND ATTENUATION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNILATERAL CONDUCTIVE HEARING LOSS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BONE CONDUCTION; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, UNILATERAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859644581     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2012.02.012     Document Type: Article

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