The effects of aging and interaural delay on the detection of a break in the interaural correlation between two sounds

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 273-286

  Li, Liang ^a   Huang, Juan ^a   Wu, Xihong ^a   Qi, James G ^b   Schneider, Bruce A ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND; STIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WAVEFORM; AMPLIFIER; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGING; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69049118070     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e318198703d     Document Type: Article

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