Correlations between word intelligibility under reverberation and speech auditory brainstem responses in elderly listeners

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 96-102

  Fujihira, H ^a   Shiraishi, K ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem response; Elderly listeners; Reverberation; Speech; Word intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REVERBERATION TIME; SPEECH AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84917680935     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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