Associations and dissociations between psychoacoustic abilities and speech perception in adolescents with severe-to-profound hearing loss

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 956-972

  Kishon Rabin, Liat ^a,b   Segal, Osnat ^a   Algom, Daniel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Frequency selectivity; Hearing impaired; Psychoacoustics; Speech perception; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68149091602     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/07-0072)     Document Type: Article

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