Effects of age on speech understanding in normal hearing listeners: Relationship between the auditory efferent system and speech intelligibility in noise

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 855-862

  Kim, SungHee ^a,b   Frisina, Robert D ^a,b   Frisina, D Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cocktail party effect; Medial efferent system; Presbycusis; Release from masking

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; AGING OF MATERIALS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

COCKTAIL PARTY EFFECT; MEDIAL EFFERENT SYSTEM; PRESBYCUSIS; RELEASE FROM MASKING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 33745009727     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.03.004     Document Type: Article

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