Audiological correlates of speech understanding deficits in elderly listeners with mild-to-moderate hearing loss. I. Age and lateral asymmetry effects

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 42-61

  Divenyi, Pierre L ^a   Haupt, Kara M ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOISE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031051006     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199702000-00005     Document Type: Article

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