Message and talker identification in older adults: Effects of task, distinctiveness of the talkers' voices, and meaningfulness of the competing message

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 435-453

  Rossi Katz, Jessica ^a,b   Arehart, Kathryn Hoberg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hearing loss; Perceptual organization; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249149667     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/07-0243)     Document Type: Article

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