Spectral contributions to the benefit from spatial separation of speech and noise

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1297-1310

  Dubno, Judy R ^a,b   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a   Horwitz, Amy R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Binaural hearing; Hearing loss; Spatial separation; Speech recognition in noise

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; NOISE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036920170     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2002/104)     Document Type: Article

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