Longitudinal changes in speech recognition in older persons

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 462-475

  Dubno, Judy R ^a   Lee, Fu Shing ^a   Matthews, Lois J ^a   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a   Horwitz, Amy R ^a   Mills, John H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

AUDITORY SYSTEM; HEARING LOSS; SPEECH AUDIBILITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; GENDER; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; PROGESTERONE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 37849007554     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2817362     Document Type: Article

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