Phoneme categorization and discrimination in younger and older adults: A comparative analysis of perceptual, lexical, and attentional factors

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 150-162

  Mattys, Sven L ^a   Scharenborg, Odette ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Divided attention; Dual task; Lexical access; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; DIVIDED ATTENTION; FEMALE; GANONG EFFECT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; SOUND; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY; WORD RECOGNITION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897864746     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035387     Document Type: Article

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