A positron emission tomography study of the of the neural basis of informational and energetic masking effects in speech perception

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 813-821

  Scott, Sophie K ^a   Rosen, Stuart ^a   Wickham, Lindsay ^a   Wise, Richard J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CLINICAL SCIENCES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

INFORMATIONAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REFERENCE VALUES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 1042299928     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1639336     Document Type: Article

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