Effect of set size and method on speech reception thresholds in noise

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 202-209

  Meyer, Ted A ^a,b   Bilger, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL PATHWAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0030954263     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199706000-00003     Document Type: Article

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