The effect of head-induced interaural time and level differences on speech intelligibility in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 1508-1516

  Bronkhorst, A W ^a   Plompb, R ^b  

^a Free University Hospital ^*

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EAR; HEAD; HUMAN; MANIKINS; NOISE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0023888477     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.395906     Document Type: Article

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