The effect of age on auditory spatial attention in conditions of real and simulated spatial separation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1294-1305

  Singh, Gurjit ^a,b   Pichora Fuller, M Kathleen ^a,b   Schneider, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ISOMERS; LOCATION; PROBABILITY; SEPARATION;

A-PRIORI; AGE GROUPS; AGE-DEPENDENT DIFFERENCES; COGNITIVE FACTORS; NORMAL-HEARING; OLDER ADULTS; PRECEDENCE EFFECTS; SPATIAL ATTENTION; SPATIAL CUES; SPATIAL LOCATIONS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; TARGET CUEING; TARGET LOCATION;

TARGETS;

AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; CUES; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 49249097371     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2949399     Document Type: Article

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