The effect of priming on release from informational masking is equivalent for younger and older adults

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 84-96

  Ezzatian, Payam ^a   Li, Liang ^b   Pichora Fuller, Kathy ^a,c   Schneider, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651387963     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181ee6b8a     Document Type: Article

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