Speech perception in older adults: The importance of speech-specific cognitive abilities

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 633-637

  Sommers, Mitchell S ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MEMORY; PHONETICS; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MENTAL CAPACITY; NOISE; NOISY BACKGROUND; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030919774     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb03101.x     Document Type: Review

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