Cognitive resources related to speech recognition with a competing talker in young and older listeners

Neuroscience

Volumn 232, Issue , 2013, Pages 74-82

  Meister, H ^a   Schreitmuller S ^a   Grugel, L ^a   Ortmann, M ^a   Beutner, D ^a   Walger, M ^a   Meister, I G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Attention; Competing speech; Fluid intelligence; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVIDED ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; AGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872553894     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.12.006     Document Type: Article

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