Age effects in discrimination of repeating sequence intervals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1490-1500

  Fitzgibbons, Peter J ^a   Gordon Salant, Sandra ^b  

^a GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE EFFECTS; AGE-RELATED; DIFFERENCE LIMEN; HEARING LOSS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; OLDER ADULTS; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; SENSORY CODING; SEQUENCE COMPONENTS; SINGLE SEQUENCES; TONE BURSTS; WEBER FRACTION;

AUDITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953065314     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3533728     Document Type: Article

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