The Effects of Cueing Temporal and Spatial Attention on Word Recognition in a Complex Listening Task in Hearing-Impaired Listeners

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 145-161

  Gatehouse, Stuart ^a   Akeroyd, Michael A ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attention; hearing aids; hearing impairment; spatial hearing; speech reception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, MIXED CONDUCTIVE-SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 45749111796     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713808317395     Document Type: Article

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