Aging in binaural hearing begins in mid-life: Evidence from cortical auditory-evoked responses to changes in interaural phase

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 42, 2007, Pages 11172-11178

  Ross, Bernhard ^a,c   Fujioka, Takako ^a   Tremblay, Kelly L ^a,b   Picton, Terence W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory change response; Auditory cortex; Binaural; Hearing loss; Human; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 35448964655     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1813-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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