Profile of auditory temporal processing in older listeners

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 300-311

  Gordon Salant, Sandra ^a   Fitzgibbons, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hearing loss; Psychoacoustics; Speech perception; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

EID: 0033005712     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4202.300     Document Type: Article

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