The effects of age and hearing loss on interaural phase difference discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 342-351

  King, Andrew ^a   Hopkins, Kathryn ^a   Plack, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE-MODULATED; BINAURAL PROCESSING; DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLDS; INDEPENDENT CONTRIBUTIONS; INTERAURAL PHASE DIFFERENCES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

AUDITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893219339     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4838995     Document Type: Article

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