Maturation of visual and auditory temporal processing in school-aged children

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1002-1015

  Dawes, Piers ^a,b   Bishop, Dorothy V M ^a  

^a Oxford Stud Children's Commun I   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory processing; Maturation; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; SCHOOLS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; STUDENTS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 48749114659     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/073)     Document Type: Article

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