Effects of age, speech rate, and type of test on temporal auditory processing

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1192-1200

  Vaughan, Nancy E ^a   Letowski, Tomasz ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive slowing; Speech understanding; Temporal auditory processing; Time compression

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; RATING SCALE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030863231     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4005.1192     Document Type: Article

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