Perceptual restoration of degraded speech is preserved with advancing age

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 139-148

  Saija, Jefta D ^a,b   Akyürek, Elkan G ^b   Andringa, Tjeerd C ^b   Başkent, Deniz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognitive slowing; healthy aging; phonemic restoration; speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893742034     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-013-0422-z     Document Type: Article

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