A New Test of Attention in Listening (TAIL) Predicts Auditory Performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Yu Xuan ^a,b   Barry, Johanna G ^a   Moore, David R ^a   Amitay, Sygal ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST OF ATTENTION IN LISTENING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84871787706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053502     Document Type: Article

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