Pupil response as an indication of effortful listening: The influence of sentence intelligibility

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 480-490

  Zekveld, Adriana A ^a   Kramer, Sophia E ^a   Festen, Joost M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; PUPIL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PUPIL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955784292     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181d4f251     Document Type: Article

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