Phonemic restoration by hearing-impaired listeners with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss

Hearing Research

Volumn 260, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 54-62

  Başkent, Deniz ^a   Eiler, Cheryl L ^a   Edwards, Brent ^a  

^a Starkey Hearing Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory scene analysis; Bottom up processing; Hearing impairment; Phonemic restoration; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73649096170     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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