Aging, spatial cues, and single- versus dual-task performance in competing speech perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3625-3633

  Helfer, Karen S ^a   Chevalier, Jamie ^a   Freyman, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; DUAL-TASKS; OLDER ADULTS; SPATIAL CUES; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; TIME-REVERSED;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; CUES; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952159601     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3502462     Document Type: Article

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