Phonological mismatch and explicit cognitive processing in a sample of 102 hearing-aid users

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2008, Pages

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

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aided speech recognition in noise; Cognition; Digital hearing aids; ELU; Phonological mismatch; Reading span; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOISE; PHONETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCANDINAVIA; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

AGED; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; COGNITION; DENMARK; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; READING; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 56549125409     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020802304393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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