Temporal processing deficits in the pre-senescent auditory system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2305-2315

  Grose, John H ^a   Hall III, Joseph W ^a   Buss, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION TASKS; GAP DURATION DISCRIMINATION (GDD); MARKER FREQUENCY; PRE-SENESCENT AUDITORY SYSTEMS;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HEARING; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SENESCENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645368330     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2172169     Document Type: Article

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