Why middle-aged listeners have trouble hearing in everyday settings.

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Published in Curr Biol on June 21, 2012

Authors

Dorea Ruggles1, Hari Bharadwaj, Barbara G Shinn-Cunningham

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

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