Effects of Age on Auditory and Cognitive Processing: Implications for Hearing Aid Fitting and Audiologic Rehabilitation

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-59

  Pichora Fuller, M Kathleen ^a   Singh, Gurjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; COGNITION; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; AUDIOLOGY; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COMPREHENSION; HEARING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PRESBYACUSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; COGNITION; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MEMORY; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745010448     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108471380601000103     Document Type: Article

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