Maturation of speech discrimination in 4- to 7-yr-old children as indexed by event-related potential mismatch responses

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 735-745

  Shafer, Valerie L ^a   Yu, Yan H ^a   Datta, Hia ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REACTION TIME; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 78649335082     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181e5d1a7     Document Type: Article

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