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Original Article

Hearing impairment, cognition and speech understanding: exploratory factor analyses of a comprehensive test battery for a group of hearing aid users, the n200 study

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Pages 623-642 | Received 17 Mar 2016, Accepted 29 Jul 2016, Published online: 02 Sep 2016

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