Binaural advantage for younger and older adults with normal hearing

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 539-556

  Dubno, Judy R ^a,b   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a   Horwitz, Amy R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Binaural advantage; Binaural hearing; Speech recognition in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 45249084806     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/039)     Document Type: Article

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