Timing is everything: Temporal processing deficits in the aged auditory brainstem

Hearing Research

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 63-69

  Walton, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Animal models; Neural correlates; Temporal resolution

Indexed keywords

AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; COMPREHENSION; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952671937     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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