Apparent auditory source width insensitivity in older hearing-impaired individuals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 369-379

  Whitmer, William M ^a   Seeber, Bernhard U ^a   Akeroyd, Michael A ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SOURCE WIDTH; DISCRIMINATION EXPERIMENTS; HEARING LOSS; NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SOURCE; SPATIAL IMAGES; TEMPORAL JITTER; VISUAL EXPERIMENTS; VISUAL TASKS;

EXPERIMENTS; VISION;

AUDITION;

AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84863637980     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4728200     Document Type: Article

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