Effects of age and task difficulty on ERP responses to novel sounds presented during a speech-perception-in-noise test

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 360-368

  Bertoli, Sibylle ^a   Bodmer, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; Event related potentials; Late positive potential; Listening effort; Novelty P3; Speech perception in noise test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; AUDITORY PERCEPTION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION IN NOISE TEST; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOUND; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925949569     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.02.055     Document Type: Article

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