Auditory-visual speech perception and auditory-visual enhancement in normal-hearing younger and older adults

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 263-275

  Sommers, Mitchell S ^a   Tye Murray, Nancy ^b   Spehar, Brent ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONSONANT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LIP READING; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRESBYACUSIS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISION; VOLUNTEER; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPREADING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 21444443191     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-200506000-00003     Document Type: Article

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