Effects of age and mild hearing loss on speech recognition in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 87-96

  Dubno, Judy R ^a   Dirks, Donald D ^a   Morgan, Donald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

AGE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021458571     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.391011     Document Type: Article

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