Age-related differences in lexical access relate to speech recognition in noise

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue JUL, 2016, Pages

  Carroll, Rebecca ^a   Warzybok, Anna ^a   Kollmeier, Birger ^a   Ruigendijk, Esther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Cognitive change; lexical access; Mental lexicon; Speech perception in noise; Verbal working memory; Vocabulary size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982204046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00990     Document Type: Article

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