Auditory localization, detection of spatial separateness, and speech hearing in noise by hearing impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2343-2352

  Noble, William ^a   Byrne, Denis ^b   Ter Horst, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL ACOUSTIC LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH;

AGED; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030870254     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419618     Document Type: Article

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