Across-frequency comparison of temporal speech information by listeners with normal and impaired hearing

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1262-1275

  Healy, Eric W ^a,b   Bacon, Sid P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Across frequency processing; Asynchrony; Hearing impairment; Speech recognition; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SENSATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036928454     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2002/101)     Document Type: Article

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