The annoyance of snoring and psychoacoustic parameters: A step towards an objective measurement

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 269, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1537-1543

  Rohrmeier, Christian ^a   Herzog, Michael ^b   Haubner, Frank ^a   Kuehnel, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annoyance; Objective; Psychoacoustic; Psychometric; Snoring

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SNORING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SNORING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862862850     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: 14344726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-011-1878-2     Document Type: Article

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