An artificial environment is often a noisy environment: Auditory scene analysis and speech perception in noise

Journal of Physiological Anthropology and Applied Human Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-133

  Ueda, Kazuo ^a   Nakajima, Yoshitaka ^a   Akahane Yamada, Reiko ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross modal covariations; Second language acquisition; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONSONANT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOISE; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRAINING;

AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 15244339022     PISSN: 13453475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2114/jpa.24.129     Document Type: Review

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