Some effects of aging on event-related potentials during a linguistic monitoring task

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 321-330

  Jerger, James ^a,b   Martin, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory; Dichotic; ERP; LPC; N400; Presbyacusis; Processing negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL N400; EVOKED LATE POSITIVE COMPONENT; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING NEGATIVITY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PRESBYCUSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 22644438485     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020500146450     Document Type: Article

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