Auditory processing deficits in reading disabled adults

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 302-320

  Amitay, Sygal ^a   Ahissar, Meray ^a   Nelken, Israel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Auditory; Psychoacoustics; Reading disabled; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DYSLEXIA; EAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; READING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036751397     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s101620010093     Document Type: Article

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