Characterizing Auditory Deficits in Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Principal Component Analysis Approach.
Purpose: There is currently no consensus regarding an evidence-based assessment protocol for normal-hearing patients with a history of brain injury who report auditory difficulties. This work used a large test battery to identify measures that explained the most variability across participants with...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Audiology Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 680 - 691 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Jun2026
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