Benefit from spatial separation of multiple talkers in bilateral hearing-aid users: Effects of hearing loss, age, and cognition

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 758-774

  Neher, Tobias ^a   Behrens, Thomas ^a   Carlile, Simon ^b   Jin, Craig ^b   Kragelund, Louise ^a   Petersen, Anne Specht ^a   Schaik, Andr Van ^b  

^a Eriksholm Research Centre   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age; Attention; Cognition; Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Spatial hearing; Spatial release from masking; Speech on speech masking; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 71449114985     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992020903079332     Document Type: Article

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