Speech recognition in younger and older adults: A dependency on low-level auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 6078-6087

  Harris, Kelly C ^a,b   Dubno, Judy R ^a   Keren, Noam I ^a   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a   Eckert, Mark A ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MSC 550 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049142083     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0412-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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