Two-tone auditory suppression in younger and older normal-hearing adults and its relationship to speech perception in noise

Hearing Research

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 56-62

  Sommers, Mitchell S ^a   Gehr, Sara E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory suppression; Speech perception in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952675068     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.12.020     Document Type: Article

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