Effects of hearing loss on the subcortical representation of speech cues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3030-3038

  Anderson, Samira ^a,b   Parbery Clark, Alexandra ^a   White Schwoch, Travis ^a   Drehobl, Sarah ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 0100 LeFrak Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; CENTRAL AUDITORY PROCESSING; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; IMPLANTATION TECHNOLOGY; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; STIMULUS ENVELOPES; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES;

BRAIN; HEARING AIDS; SPEECH;

AUDITION;

AGED; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877589295     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4799804     Document Type: Article

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