Hearing loss impacts neural alpha oscillations under adverse listening conditions

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Petersen, Eline B ^a,b,c   Wöstmann, Malte ^d,e   Obleser, Jonas ^e   Stenfelt, Stefan ^b,c   Lunner, Thomas ^a,c  

^a Eriksholm Research Centre   (Denmark)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Linköping University   (Sweden)

^d and Plasticity   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alpha oscillations; Cognition; Hearing aid; Hearing loss; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926506963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00177     Document Type: Article

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