Contralateral suppression of transient otoacoustic emissions and sentence recognition in noise in young adults

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 686-696

  Stuart, Andrew ^a   Butler, Alyson K ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contralateral suppression; Noise; Otoacoustic emissions; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; AUDITORY MASKING; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSIENT EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; WHITE NOISE; WORD RECOGNITION;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NOISE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868275615     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.23.9.3     Document Type: Article

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