Speech reception thresholds in noise with and without spectral and temporal dips for hearing-impaired and normally hearing people

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 577-587

  Peters, Robert W ^a,b   Moore, Brian C J ^c   Baer, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; COCHLEA; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031983474     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421128     Document Type: Article

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