Relationships among age-related differences in gap detection and word recognition

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1615-1626

  Snell, Karen B ^a   Frisina, D Robert ^a,b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0034096086     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428446     Document Type: Article

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