Psychophysical suppression effects for tonal and speech signals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 2108-2119

  Dubno, J R ^a   Ahlstrom, J B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; NOISE ABATEMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

COCHLEAR HEARING; NOISE MASKERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BIOACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PRESBYCUSIS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0034793799     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1403699     Document Type: Article

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