Normal hearing is not enough to guarantee robust encoding of suprathreshold features important in everyday communication

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 37, 2011, Pages 15516-15521

  Ruggles, Dorea ^a   Bharadwaj, Hari ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory processing disorder; Auditory scene analysis; Frequency following response; Individual differences; Informational masking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY GATING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTICS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMMUNICATION; HEARING; HUMANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80053090770     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108912108     Document Type: Article

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