Auditory-neurophysiological responses to speech during early childhood: Effects of background noise

Hearing Research

Volumn 328, Issue , 2015, Pages 34-47

  White Schwoch, Travis ^a   Davies, Evan C ^a   Thompson, Elaine C ^a   Woodruff Carr, Kali ^a   Nicol, Trent ^a   Bradlow, Ann R ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory development; Auditory processing; CABR; Electrophysiology; FFR; Speech recognition in noise

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEARING; HEARING TEST; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEARING; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; PHONETICS; RISK FACTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84936878094     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2015.06.009     Document Type: Article

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