NAL-NL2 Empirical Adjustments

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 211-223

  Keidser, Gitte ^a   Dillon, Harvey ^a   Carter, Lyndal ^a   O'Brien, Anna ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

age; amplification; binaural loudness summation; experience; gender; hearing aid fitting; loudness; NAL NL1; NAL NL2; prescription

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871606587     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713812468511     Document Type: Article

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