Aging and the processing of sound duration in human auditory cortex

Hearing Research

Volumn 181, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 1-7

  Ostroff, Jodi M ^a   McDonald, Kelly L ^a   Schneider, Bruce A ^b   Alain, Claude ^a,b  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory; Evoked potential; Perception; Scene analysis; Sound duration; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0038353643     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(03)00113-8     Document Type: Article

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