Effects of stimulus variability and adult aging on adaptation to time-compressed speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1701-1708

  Golomb, Julie D ^a,b   Peelle, Jonathan E ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

SENTENCES; STIMULUS VARIABILITY;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIFESPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RATE; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34147142912     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2436635     Document Type: Article

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