Effects of Contralateral Acoustic Stimulation on Spontaneous Otoacoustic Emissions and Hearing Threshold Fine Structure

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 897-914

  Dewey, James B ^a   Lee, Jungmee ^a   Dhar, Sumitrajit ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contralateral acoustic stimulation; medial olivocochlear system; spontaneous otoacoustic emissions; threshold fine structure

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTRALATERAL ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE EAR MUSCLE REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; ACOUSTICS; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911974277     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-014-0485-5     Document Type: Article

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