Recovery from prior stimulation: Masking of speech by interrupted noise for younger and older adults with normal hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 4 I, 2003, Pages 2084-2094

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

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDITION; FREQUENCIES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

INTERRUPTED NOISES;

SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NERVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0037382340     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1555611     Document Type: Article

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