Age differences in backward masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2793-2799

  Gehr, Sara Elizabeth ^a   Sommers, Mitchell S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032693310     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428104     Document Type: Article

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