Auditory measures of selective and divided attention in young and older adults using single-talker competition

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2926-2937

  Humes, Larry E ^a   Lee, Jae Hee ^a   Coughlin, Maureen P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD PROCESSING;

ELDERLY HEARING-IMPAIRED (EHI) LISTENERS; HEARING LOSS; SINGLE-TALKER COMPETITION;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33750300500     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2354070     Document Type: Article

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