The effects of age and cochlear hearing loss on temporal fine structure sensitivity, frequency selectivity, and speech reception in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 334-349

  Hopkins, Kathryn ^a,b   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIOMETRIC THRESHOLDS; COCHLEAR HEARING LOSS; FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY; INTERAURAL PHASE DIFFERENCES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

AUDIOMETERS; TESTING;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; HEARING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960689944     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3585848     Document Type: Article

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