Age-Related Impairments in Comprehending Affective Prosody with Comparison to Brain-Damaged Subjects

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 44-52

  Orbelo, Diana M ^a,b,c   Testa, Julie A ^a   Ross, Elliott D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective prosody; Aging; Auditory comprehension; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AFFECTIVE PROSODY; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037669219     PISSN: 08919887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891988702250565     Document Type: Article

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