Aging affects neural precision of speech encoding

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 14156-14164

  Anderson, Samira ^a   Parbery Clark, Alexandra ^a   White Schwoch, Travis ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPIKE WAVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867248936     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2176-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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