Age effects in temporal envelope processing: Speech unmasking and auditory steady state responses

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 568-575

  Grose, John H ^b   Mamo, Sara K ^a   Hall III, Joseph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; STEADY STATE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349156468     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181ac128f     Document Type: Article

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