The relationship between high-frequency pure-tone hearing loss, hearingin noise test (HINT) thresholds, and the articulation index

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 779-788

  Vermiglio, Andrew J ^a   Soli, Sigfrid D ^b   Freed, Daniel J ^b,c   Fisher, Laurel M ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOUSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c EarLens Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation index; Attenuation; Distortion; Hearing in noise test (HINT); Pure tone average; Speech recognition in noise; Speech recognition in quiet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN FOULBROOD; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870200766     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.23.10.4     Document Type: Article

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