How age and linguistic competence alter the interplay of perceptual and cognitive factors when listening to conversations in a noisy environment

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Avivi Reich, Meital ^a   Daneman, Meredyth ^a   Schneider, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age; Auditory cognitive interaction; Hearing; Hearing loss; Multitalker discourse; Nonnative listeners; Spatial separation; Speech comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BABBLE THRESHOLD TEST; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; R-SPIN TEST; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84901339301     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00021     Document Type: Article

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