The impact of aging and hearing status on verbal short-term memory

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 464-482

  Verhaegen, Clémence ^a   Collette, Fabienne ^a   Majerus, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory processing; Hearing status; Storage capacity; Verbal short term memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899413079     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2013.832725     Document Type: Article

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