Hearing loss in older adults affects neural systems supporting speech comprehension

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 35, 2011, Pages 12638-12643

  Peelle, Jonathan E ^a   Troiani, Vanessa ^a   Grossman, Murray ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH COMPREHENSION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; SPEECH;

EID: 80052350924     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2559-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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