Transfer of auditory perceptual learning with spectrally reduced speech to speech and nonspeech tasks: Implications for cochlear implants

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 662-674

  Loebach, Jeremy L ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a   Svirsky, Mario A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROL GROUP; HEARING; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449487397     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181b9c92d     Document Type: Article

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