Robust relationship between reading span and speech recognition in noise

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 705-713

  Souza, Pamela ^a   Arehart, Kathryn ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

age; cognition; Hearing; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COLORADO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSON; HUMAN; ILLINOIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; COLORADO; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84941882014     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2015.1043062     Document Type: Article

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