Auditory brainstem measures predict reading and speech-in-noise perception in school-aged children

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 597-605

  Hornickel, Jane ^a   Chandrasekaran, Bharath ^a,b   Zecker, Steve ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem; Children; Electrophysiology; Reading; Speech in noise perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VARIANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 78149497080     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.08.051     Document Type: Article

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