The Aging Auditory System

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gordon-Salant, Sandra. (Editor), Frisina, Robert D. (Editor), Popper, Arthur N. (Editor), Fay, Richard R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 34
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Geriatrics.; Neurology.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Human Physiology.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0993-0

This volume is to bring together noted scientists who study presbycusis from the perspective of complementary disciplines, for a review of the current state of knowledge on the aging auditory system. Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is one of the top three most common chronic health conditions affect...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and overview
• Auditory Periphery
• Central Auditory System
• Links Between Animal Models of Age-related Hearing Loss and Human Presbycusis
• Behavioral studies with aging humans (psychoacoustics)
• Binaural Processing and Auditory Asymmetrie
• Senescent cognitive changes in relation to processing of acoustic stimuli
• Speech perception and aging
• Disorders of aging in humans
• Augmented acoustic Environment, plasticity and future therapeutics.