Auditory speech recognition and visual text recognition in younger and older adults: Similarities and differences between modalities and the effects of presentation rate

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 283-303

  Humes, Larry E ^a   Burk, Matthew H ^a   Coughlin, Maureen P ^a   Busey, Thomas A ^a   Strauser, Lauren E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Central auditory processing; Hearing loss; Speech understanding; Time compressed speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; AGE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250904231     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/021)     Document Type: Article

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