Effect of age on detection of gaps in speech and nonspeech markers varying in duration and spectral symmetry

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1143-1155

  Pichora Fuller, M Kathleen ^a   Schneider, Bruce A ^a   Benson, Nancy J ^b   Hamstra, Stanley J ^c   Storzer, Edward ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d McNeill Audiology   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP DETECTION THRESHOLDS; NONSPEECH MARKERS; SPECTRAL SYMMETRY; STIMULUS-DEPENDENT AGE EFFECTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDITION; DEMODULATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 31744434602     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2149837     Document Type: Article

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