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Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
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Age-related hearing loss associated with altered response efficiency and variability on a visual sustained attention task

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Pages 1-25 | Received 14 Aug 2019, Accepted 09 Dec 2019, Published online: 23 Dec 2019

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