Age-related differences in discrimination of an interval separating onsets of successive tone bursts as a function of interval duration

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 458-466

  Fitzgibbons, Peter J ^a   Gordon Salant, Sandra ^b   Barrett, Jessica ^b  

^a GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DISCRIMINATORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY HEARING LOSS; INTER-ONSET INTERVAL (IOI); TONE BURSTS;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; AGE; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HUMANS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547431725     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2739409     Document Type: Article

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