Speech recognition with reduced spectral cues as a function of age

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 2704-2710

  Eisenberg, Laurie S ^a   Shannon, Robert V ^a   Martinez, Amy Schaefer ^a   Wygonski, John ^a   Boothroyd, Arthur ^b  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034067173     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428656     Document Type: Article

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