Does musical training protect noise-exposed musicians from the consequences of ‘hidden hearing loss’?
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2016Author
Yeend, Ingrid
Beach, Elizabeth
Sharma, Mridula
Pang, Jermy
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"Hidden hearing loss": noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy involving the selective loss of high-threshold auditory nerve fibres without affecting auditory thresholds, but resulting in perceptual deficits such as difficulty understanding speech in background noise. (Kujawa & Liberman, 2009)