Associations between speech understanding and auditory and visual tests of verbal working memory: effects of linguistic complexity, task, age, and hearing loss

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Smith, Sherri L ^a,b   Pichora Fuller, M Kathleen ^c,d,e,f  

^a James H Quillen VA Medical Center   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aging; hearing loss; listening working memory; reading working memory; speech understanding; speech in noise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978271791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01394     Document Type: Article

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