Age-related differences in the temporal modulation transfer function with pure-tone carriers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3841-3849

  He, Ning Ji ^a   Mills, John H ^a   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a   Dubno, Judy R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; CARRIER FREQUENCIES; CARRIER WAVEFORMS; DETECTION THRESHOLDS; ENVELOPE FLUCTUATIONS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; NEURAL RESPONSE; NORMAL HEARINGS; OLDER ADULTS; TEMPORAL CUES; TEMPORAL MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TRANSITION FREQUENCIES;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CIVIL AVIATION; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

MODULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049088696     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2998779     Document Type: Article

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