Design of two syllabic nonlinear multichannel signal processors and the results of speech tests in noise

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-33

  Van Harten de Bruijn, Helene E ^a   Van Kreveld Bos, C Sidonne G M ^a   Dreschler, Wouter A ^a   Verschuure, Hans ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHONEME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031056732     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199702000-00003     Document Type: Article

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