Behavioral Hearing Thresholds between 0.125 and 20 kHz Using Depth-Compensated Ear Simulator Calibration

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 315-329

  Lee, Jungmee ^a   Dhar, Sumitrajit ^a   Abel, Rebekah ^a   Banakis, Renee ^a   Grolley, Evan ^a   Lee, Jungwha ^b   Zecker, Steven ^a   Siegel, Jonathan ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biostatistics Collaboration Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; CALIBRATION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYACUSIS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND DETECTION; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; CALIBRATION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PRESBYCUSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND LOCALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862789277     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31823d7917     Document Type: Article

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