Processing interaural cues in sound segregation by young and middle-aged brains

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 453-458

  Wambacq, Ilse J A ^a   Koehnke, Janet ^a   Besing, Joan ^a   Romei, Laurie L ^a   DePierro, AnnMarie ^a   Cooper, David ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory evoked potentials; Concurrent sound segregation; Dichotic grouping cues

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE; CUES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70450212904     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.20.7.6     Document Type: Article

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