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Noise Exposure and Background Noise Tolerance in Listeners with Normal Audiograms
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Camera, Sarah; Tufts, Jennifer; Skoe, Erika – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Tolerance for background noise when listening to speech has been found to vary greatly between individuals, despite clinically similar audiograms. Recent work suggests that listeners at risk for noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) self-report greater annoyance of background sounds compared with listeners at lower risk for NIHL. To date, the…
Descriptors: Acoustics, College Students, Correlation, At Risk Persons