Top-down influences of the medial olivocochlear efferent system in speech perception in noise

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mishra, Srikanta K ^a,b   Lutman, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BUTLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CLICK EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL OLIVOCOCHLEAR EFFERENT SYSTEM; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; MASKING; MEDIAL OLIVOCOCHLEAR SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; COCHLEA; EFFERENT NERVE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; COCHLEA; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84918501984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085756     Document Type: Article

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