Effect of Age on Silent Gap Discrimination in Synthetic Speech Stimuli

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 257-268

  Lister, Jennifer ^a   Tarver, Kenton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic stimuli; Gap discrimination; Speech perception; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; EXPERIENCE; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOUND; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STEADY STATE; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 2142765902     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2004/021)     Document Type: Article

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