The effect of voice cuing on releasing speech from informational masking disappears in older adults

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 579-583

  Huang, Ying ^a   Xu, Lijuan ^a   Wu, Xihong ^a   Li, Liang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955847939     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181db6dc2     Document Type: Article

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