The effects of semantic context and the type and amount of acoustic distortion on lexical decision by younger and older adults

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1715-1732

  Goy, Huiwen ^a   Pelletier, Marianne ^a   Coletta, Marco ^a   Kathleen Pichora Fuller, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Context; Facilitation; Lexical decision; Low pass filtering; Multitalker babble; Time compression

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891544542     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2013/12-0053)     Document Type: Article

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