Effect of low-frequency gain reduction on speech recognition and its relation to upward spread of masking

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 410-422

  Cook, Jodi A ^b,c   Bacon, Sid P ^b   Sammeth, Carol A ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Box 870102 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing aids; Heating loss; Masking; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0030755542     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4002.410     Document Type: Article

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