The effects of hearing loss on the contribution of high- and low-frequency speech information to speech understanding

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1706-1717

  Hornsby, Benjamin W Y ^a   Ricketts, Todd A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; HIGH PASS FILTERS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

HEARING LOSS (HI);

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SOUND;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037334967     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1553458     Document Type: Article

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