Perception of alternated speech operates similarly in young and older adults with age-normal hearing

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 337-345

  Stewart, Raj ^a   Yetton, Ethan ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; RECALL; REFERENCE VALUE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 42949143217     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.2.337     Document Type: Article

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