Aging degrades the neural encoding of simple and complex sounds in the human brainstem

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 590-599

  Clinard, Christopher G ^a   Tremblay, Kelly L ^b  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory brainstem; Frequency following response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; CONSONANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, EVOKED RESPONSE; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCALP; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884795410     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.24.7.7     Document Type: Article

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