Understanding of spoken language under challenging listening conditions in younger and older listeners: A combined behavioral and electrophysiological study

Brain Research

Volumn 1415, Issue , 2011, Pages 8-22

  Getzmann, Stephan ^a   Falkenstein, Michael ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; EEG; Spoken language understanding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052869282     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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