Cognitive and Auditory Factors Underlying Auditory Spatial Attention in Younger and Older Adults

Listening to speech with competing speech in the background is challenging and becomes harder with age. Three experiments examined the auditory and cognitive aspects of auditory spatial attention in conditions in which the location of the target was uncertain. In all experiments, word identification...

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Main Author: Singh, Gurjit
Other Authors: Pichora-Fuller, Margaret Kathleen
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/27568