Effects of age and hearing loss on the relationship between discrimination of stochastic frequency modulation and speech perception

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 709-720

  Sheft, Stanley ^a   Shafiro, Valeriy ^a   Lorenzi, Christian ^b   McMullen, Rachel ^a   Farrell, Caitlin ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PRESBYACUSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PRESBYCUSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84871645566     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31825aab15     Document Type: Article

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