Investigation of potential cognitive tests for use with older adults in audiology clinics

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 533-541

  Vaughan, Nancy ^a   Storzbach, Daniel ^a   Furukawa, Izumi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR REHABILITATIVE AUDITORY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Neurocognitive tests; Principal components analysis; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESBYACUSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; STATISTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AGED; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRESBYCUSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 63149110924     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.19.7.2     Document Type: Article

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