Within-ear and across-ear interference in a cocktail-party listening task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2985-2995

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Veridian Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

TARGET SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ATTENTION; HEARING; PERCEPTION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036984594     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1512703     Document Type: Article

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