Aging effects on the activation of the auditory cortex during binaural speech listening in white noise: An fMRI study

Audiology and Neurotology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 285-294

  Hwang, Juen Haur ^a,c   Li, Chia Wei ^a   Wu, Chang Wei ^a   Chen, Jyh Horng ^a   Liu, Tien Chen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory cortex; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Speech perception, noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WHITE NOISE;

ADULT; AGING; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NOISE; SPEECH;

EID: 34547808796     PISSN: 14203030     EISSN: 14219700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103209     Document Type: Article

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