Cognitive supports and cognitive constraints on comprehension of spoken language

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 548-558

  Wingfield, Arthur ^a   Tun, Patricia A ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Language processing; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SELF EFFICACY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 37849024168     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.18.7.3     Document Type: Article

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