Informational and energetic masking effects in the perception of multiple simultaneous talkers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 5 I, 2001, Pages 2527-2538

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^b   Ericson, Mark A ^a   Scott, Kimberly R ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Veridian Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; ACOUSTICS;

MONAURAL STIMULUS;

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

BINAURAL CUES; ENERGETIC MASKING; EXPOSED TO; EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; SEGREGATION OF SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH SIGNALS; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0035169173     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1408946     Document Type: Article

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