Effects of sensorineural hearing loss on visually guided attention in a multitalker environment

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 142-148

  Best, Virginia ^a,b   Marrone, Nicole ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hearing impairment; Spatial attention; Speech intelligibility; Top down attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349103872     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-008-0146-7     Document Type: Article

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