An active loudness model suggesting tinnitus as increased central noise and hyperacusis as increased nonlinear gain

Hearing Research

Volumn 295, Issue , 2013, Pages 172-179

  Zeng, Fan Gang ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MODEL; DYNAMICS; HEARING; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TINNITUS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; HYPERACUSIS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TINNITUS;

EID: 84871993434     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2012.05.009     Document Type: Article

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