Spatial perception of speech in various signal to noise ratios

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 298-309

  Abouchacra, Kim S ^a   Emanuel, Diana C ^b   Blood, Ingrid M ^c   Letowski, Tomasz R ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031851495     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003446-199808000-00005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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