Age-group differences in speech identification despite matched audiometrically normal hearing: Contributions from auditory temporal processing and cognition

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages

  Füllgrabe, Christian ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^b   Stone, Michael A ^c,d  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Normal hearing; Speech identification; Temporal envelope; Temporal fine structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIOGRAPHY; COGNITION; CONSONANT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MODULATION; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84922477008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00347     Document Type: Article

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