Practice and List Effects on the Synthetic Sentence Identification Test in Young and Elderly Listeners

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1-5, 2000, Pages 1160-1167

  Feeney, M Patrick ^a,b   Hallowell, Brooke ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Central auditory processing; Hearing; Practice effects; Synthetic Sentence Identification Test

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, CENTRAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034305349     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4305.1160     Document Type: Article

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