Stimulus and listener factors affecting age-related changes in competing speech perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 748-759

  Helfer, Karen S ^a   Freyman, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGE-RELATED CHANGES; COGNITIVE ABILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE; SYNTACTIC SIMILARITIES; WORD IDENTIFICATION;

AUDITION;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; AGED; AGING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STROOP TEST; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STROOP TEST; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84905674350     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4887463     Document Type: Article

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