Ageing without hearing loss or cognitive impairment causes a decrease in speech intelligibility only in informational maskers

Neuroscience

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 784-795

  Rajan, R ^a   Cainer, K E ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

ageing; auditory load; hearing; masking; speech in noise discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 46549086466     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.03.067     Document Type: Article

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