This page contains the bibliography and additional information for the post Are There Any Earplugs and Earmuffs That Block All Sound.
Bibliography:
Elliott H. Berger, Ronald W. Kieper, and Dan Gauger, “Hearing Protection: Surpassing the Limits to Attenuation Imposed by the Bone-Conduction Pathways,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 114, no. 4 (2003): 1955–1967.
Elliott H. Berger, “‘Calibrating’ the Insertion Depth of Roll-down Foam Earplugs,” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 19, no. 1 (May 14, 2013): 040002, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4800461.
Eddy B. Brixen, “Facts about Speech Intelligibility,” DPA, January 20, 2016, https://www.dpamicrophones.com/mic-university/facts-about-speech-intelligibility.
Kenji Homma et al., “Ossicular Resonance Modes of the Human Middle Ear for Bone and Air Conduction,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125, no. 2 (February 2009): 968–79, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3056564.
Michael E. Ravicz and Jennifer R. Melcher, “Isolating the Auditory System from Acoustic Noise during Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Examination of Noise Conduction through the Ear Canal, Head, and Body,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109, no. 1 (January 2001): 216–31.
Sabine Reinfeldt et al., “Examination of Bone-Conducted Transmission from Sound Field Excitation Measured by Thresholds, Ear-Canal Sound Pressure, and Skull Vibrations,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 121, no. 3 (March 1, 2007): 1576–87, https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2434762.
Stefan Stenfelt and Richard Goode, “Bone-Conducted Sound: Physiological and Clinical Aspects,” Otology & Neurotology : Official Publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology 26 (December 1, 2005): 1245–61, https://doi.org/10.1097/01.mao.0000187236.10842.d5.
Stefan Stenfelt, “Bone Conduction and the Middle Ear,” 2013, 135–69, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6591-1_6.
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Elliott H. Berger, Ronald W. Kieper, and Dan Gauger, “Hearing Protection: Surpassing the Limits to Attenuation Imposed by the Bone-Conduction Pathways,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 114, no. 4 (2003): 1955–1967.
Michael E. Ravicz and Jennifer R. Melcher, “Isolating the Auditory System from Acoustic Noise during Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Examination of Noise Conduction through the Ear Canal, Head, and Body,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109, no. 1 (January 2001): 216–31.
Howard Leight, “Sound Source: Dual Protection | HearForever,” November 8, 2014, https://web.archive.org/web/20141108094540/http://www.hearforever.org/tools-to-learn/sound-source-dual-protection.
Laboratory attenuation data for 3M and Howard Leight earplugs and earmuffs as published by the manufacturers.
