Does Audiovisual Speech Offer a Fountain of Youth for Old Ears? An Event-Related Brain Potential Study of Age Differences in Audiovisual Speech Perception

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 427-438

  Winneke, Axel H ^a   Phillips, Natalie A ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Audiovisual speech; Auditory evoked potentials; ERPs; Multisensory processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL SPEECH; EAR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959306383     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021683     Document Type: Article

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