Functional changes in the human auditory cortex in ageing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Profant, Oliver ^a,c   Tintěra, Jaroslav ^b   Balogová, Zuzana ^a,c   Ibrahim, Ibrahim ^b   Jilek, Milan ^a   Syka, Josef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRESBYACUSIS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSIENT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESBYCUSIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84923882207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116692     Document Type: Article

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