Effects of ageing on speed and temporal resolution of speech stimuli in older adults

Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 195-203

  Jafari, Zahra ^a   Omidvar, Shaghayegh ^a   Jafarloo, Fateme ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ageing; Auditory temporal resolution; Continuous noise; Interrupted noise; Time compressed speech; Word recognition score

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887398974     PISSN: 10161430     EISSN: 22516840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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