Behavioral measures of cochlear compression and temporal resolution as predictors of speech masking release in hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2895-2912

  Gregan, Melanie J ^a   Nelson, Peggy B ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL MEASURES; COCHLEAR COMPRESSION; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; TEMPORAL FLUCTUATION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COCHLEA; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEA; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885400095     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4818773     Document Type: Article

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