Hearing loss and cognitive effort in older adults' report accuracy for verbal materials

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-154

  Stewart, Raj ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult aging; Hearing loss; Speech recognition; Syntactic complexity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249141426     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.20.2.7     Document Type: Article

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