Is listening in noise worth it? the neurobiology of speech recognition in challenging listening conditions

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 37, Issue , 2016, Pages 101S-110S

  Eckert, Mark A ^a   Teubner Rhodes, Susan ^a   Vaden, Kenneth I ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; Behavioral economics; Cingulo opercular

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; BRAIN; BROCA AREA; CINGULATE GYRUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FATIGUE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; NOISE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

BRAIN; BROCA AREA; ECONOMICS, BEHAVIORAL; FATIGUE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; NOISE; PARIETAL LOBE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84978196136     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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