Cognition counts: A working memory system for ease of language understanding (ELU)

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Rönnberg, Jerker ^a   Rudner, Mary ^a   Foo, Catharina ^a   Lunner, Thomas ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behavioural measures; Cochlear implant; Cognitive hearing science; Hearing aids; Noise; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGING; AUDIOMETRY; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHONETICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RAPID AUTOMATIC MULTIMODAL BINDING OF PHONOLOGY; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SIGN LANGUAGE; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 56549100958     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020802301167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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