Auditory temporal-order processing of vowel sequences by young and elderly listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2509-2520

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

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; ONSET ASYNCHRONY; ORDER PROCESSING; TEMPORAL PROCESSING; VOWEL STIMULI;

LINGUISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954048500     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3316291     Document Type: Article

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