Cognitive spare capacity in older adults with hearing loss

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Mishra, Sushmit ^a   Stenfelt, Stefan ^a,b   Lunner, Thomas ^a,b,c   Rönnberg, Jerker ^a   Rudner, Mary ^a  

^a Linköping University   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cognitive spare capacity; Episodic long term memory; Inhibition; Updating; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERSATION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84901368795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00096     Document Type: Article

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