Age-related differences in sensitivity to small changes in frequency assessed with cortical evoked potentials

Hearing Research

Volumn 243, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 47-56

  Harris, Kelly C ^a   Mills, John H ^a   He, Ning Ji ^a   Dubno, Judy R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging and cortical potentials; Aging and frequency discrimination; Auditory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 49749112361     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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