Use of context by young and aged adults with normal hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 538-546

  Dubno, Judy R ^a   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a   Horwitz, Amy R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMETRICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033986102     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428322     Document Type: Article

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