The role of perceived spatial separation in the unmasking of speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3578-3588

  Freyman, Richard L ^a   Helfer, Karen S ^a   McCall, Daniel D ^a   Clifton, Rachel K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032776332     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428211     Document Type: Article

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