Temporal processing in the aging auditory system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2385-2399

  Strouse, Anne ^a,b   Ashmead, Daniel H ^a   Ohde, Ralph N ^a   Grantham, D Wesley ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEADPHONES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGING AUDITORY SYSTEM; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL PROCESSING;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032190239     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423748     Document Type: Article

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