Can basic auditory and cognitive measures predict hearing-impaired listeners' localization and spatial speech recognition abilities?

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1542-1558

  Neher, Tobias ^a   Laugesen, Søren ^a   Søgaard Jensen, Niels ^a   Kragelund, Louise ^a  

^a OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN; COGNITIVE PROCESS; CONTROL GROUPS; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; HEARING THRESHOLD; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; LOW FREQUENCY; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; RECOGNITION ABILITIES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE; WORKING MEMORIES;

AUDITION; DATA REDUCTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052546975     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3608122     Document Type: Article

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