Age-related changes in consonant and sentence processing

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1277-1291

  Woods, David L ^a,b   Doss, Zoe ^a   Herron, Timothy J ^a   Yund, E William ^a  

^a VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Audiometry; Auditory cortex; Consonant; Hearing loss; Learning; Nonsense syllables; Speech comprehension; Threshold; Vowel

Indexed keywords

AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONSONANT; HEARING LOSS; LEARNING; NONSENSE SYLLABLES; THRESHOLD; VOWEL;

AGING OF MATERIALS; AUDIOMETERS; AUDITION; EXPERIMENTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS;

LINGUISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 84874339598     PISSN: 07487711     EISSN: 19381352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1682/JRRD.2011.08.0150     Document Type: Article

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