Speech discrimination after early exposure to pulsed-noise or speech

Hearing Research

Volumn 289, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 1-12

  Ranasinghe, Kamalini G ^a   Carraway, Ryan S ^a   Borland, Michael S ^a   Moreno, Nicole A ^a   Hanacik, Elizabeth A ^a   Miller, Robert S ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; NOISE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861890718     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2012.04.020     Document Type: Article

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