Audiovisual deficits in older adults with hearing loss: Biological evidence

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 505-514

  Musacchia, Gabriella ^b   Arum, Laurie ^a   Nicol, Trent ^a   Garstecki, Dean ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a,b  

^a Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; HEARING; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPREADING; MALE; PHONETICS; PRESBYCUSIS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 70349120960     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181a7f5b7     Document Type: Article

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