Older Listeners' Use of Temporal Cues Altered by Compression Amplification

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 661-674

  Souza, Pamela E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Compression; Hearing aid; Recognition; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034198980     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4303.661     Document Type: Article

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