How young and old adults listen to and remember speech in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 593-608

  Kathleen Pichora Fuller, M ^a   Schneider, Bruce A ^b   Daneman, Meredyth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; HEARING; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NOISE; PRESBYCUSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0028820977     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.412282     Document Type: Article

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