Audiovisual speech in older and younger adults: Integrating a distorted visual signal with speech in noise

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 202-219

  Gordon, Michael S ^a   Allen, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; AUDIOVISUAL SPEECH; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; VISION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651151513     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730902720398     Document Type: Article

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