Problems Hearing in Noise in Older Adults: A Review of Spatial Processing Disorder

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 116-126

  Glyde, Helen ^a,b,c   Hickson, Louise ^a,c   Cameron, Sharon ^a,b   Dillon, Harvey ^a,b  

^a HEARing Cooperative Research Centre   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

aging; simultaneous stream segregation; spatial processing; speech understanding in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HEARING LOSS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857736729     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713811424885     Document Type: Article

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