Effects of reverberation on spatial, prosodic, and vocal-tract size cues to selective attention

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 335-342

  Darwin, C J ^a   Hukin, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LARYNX; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033939839     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.429468     Document Type: Article

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