Identification of envelope-expanded sentences in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

Hearing Research

Volumn 189, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 13-24

  Apoux, Frédéric ^a,b,e   Tribut, Nicolas ^c   Debruille, Xavier ^c   Lorenzi, Christian ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Intrason France   (France)

^c Laboratoire Xavier Debruille   (France)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expansion; Hearing loss; Noise; Speech identification; Temporal envelope

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTION; ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

EID: 1342287017     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(03)00397-6     Document Type: Article

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