The Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model: Theory, data, and clinical implications

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE, 2013, Pages

  Rönnberg, Jerker ^a   Lunner, Thomas ^a,b   Zekveld, Adriana ^a,c   Sörqvist, Patrik ^a,d   Danielsson, Henrik ^a   Lyxell, Björn ^a   Dahlström, Örjan ^a   Signoret, Carine ^a   Stenfelt, Stefan ^a   Pichora Fuller, M Kathleen ^a,e,f,g   Rudner, Mary ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^c OTICON A S   (Denmark)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Brain imaging analysis; Hearing Loss; Language understanding; Long term memory; Oscillations; Speech in noise; Working memory capacity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONVERSATION; EASE OF LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING MODEL; EPISODIC MEMORY; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MASKING; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 85119851047     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00031     Document Type: Article

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