Biological markers of auditory gap detection in young, middle-aged, and older adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ross, Bernhard ^a,b   Schneider, Bruce ^c   Snyder, Joel S ^d   Alain, Claude ^a,c  

^a ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; SOUND DETECTION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; AGE; BRAIN CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; THALAMUS;

EID: 77956315306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010101     Document Type: Article

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