Auditory-visual discourse comprehension by older and young adults in favorable and unfavorable conditions

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

  Tye Murray, Nancy ^a   Sommers, Mitchell ^b   Spehar, Brent ^a   Myerson, Joel ^b   Hale, Sandra ^b   Rose, Nathan S ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Audiovisual speech recognition; Closed set sentence test; Discourse comprehension; Lip reading; Speech reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LIPREADING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56549122897     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020802301662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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