Fast noisy speech: Age differences in processing rapid speech with background noise

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 424-434

  Tun, Patricia A ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031693725     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.13.3.424     Document Type: Article

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