Measures of hearing threshold and temporal processing across the adult lifespan

Hearing Research

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 30-40

  Humes, Larry E ^a   Kewley Port, Diane ^a   Fogerty, Daniel ^a   Kinney, Dana ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hearing loss; Individual differences; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952672241     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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