Investigating the role of working memory in speech-in-noise identification for listeners with normal hearing

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 894, Issue , 2016, Pages 29-36

  Füllgrabe, Christian ^a   Rosen, Stuart ^b  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Audiometrically normal; Cognition; Correlations; Matrix sentences; Noise; Older listeners; Reading span test; Speech intelligibility; Working memory capacity; Young listeners

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING TEST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84985858589     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25474-6_4     Document Type: Article

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