Cognition and hearing aids

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 395-403

  Lunner, Thomas ^a,b   Rudner, Mary ^b   RÖnnberg, Jerker ^b  

^a OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognition; Hearing aids; Noise reduction; Signal processing; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HEARING AID; HUMAN; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

COGNITION; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NOISE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349331679     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2009.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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