Neural correlates of listening effort related factors: Influence of age and hearing impairment

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 91, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-30

  Bernarding, Corinna ^a,b   Strauss, Daniel J ^a,b,c   Hannemann, Ronny ^d   Seidler, Harald ^e   Corona Strauss, Farah I ^a,b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Key Numerics GbR   (Germany)

^c INM LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEW MATERIALS   (Germany)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e Medi Clin Bosenberg Kliniken   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory late responses; Hearing impairment; Listening effort

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LISTENING EFFORT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WAVELET PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION STABILITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871411024     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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