Effects of age and age-related hearing loss on the neural representation of speech cues

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1332-1343

  Tremblay, Kelly L ^a   Piskosz, Michael ^a   Souza, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging and cortical potentials; Aging and temporal processing; Auditory evoked potentials; Speech perception and aging; Speech evoked cortical potentials

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038204537     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00114-7     Document Type: Article

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