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Peer reviewedHumes, Larry E.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This study, involving 24 young and elderly normal-hearing adults, addressed the effects of aging on auditory serial-recall performance for natural and synthetic words. Serial recall of monosyllabic words was not affected by age per se or by rate of presentation, but word difficulty affected recall for both groups. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception
