Temporal order discrimination of tonal sequences by younger and older adults: The role of duration and rate

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 462-471

  Shrivastav, Mini N ^a   Humes, Larry E ^b   Aylsworth, Lacy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); HEARING LOSSES; HEARING-IMPAIRED; NON UNIFORM; NORMAL-HEARING (NH); OLDER ADULTS; SHORT DURATIONS; TEMPORAL MASKING; TEMPORAL ORDER;

RADIO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 47649129227     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2932089     Document Type: Article

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