Measuring the threshold for speech reception by adaptive, variation of the signal bandwidth. II. Hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1685-1696

  Noordhoek, Ingrid M ^a,b   Houtgast, Tammo ^a   Festen, Joost M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0034050169     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428452     Document Type: Article

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