Development of a speech-in-multitalker-babble paradigm to assess word-recognition performance

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 453-470

  Wilson, Richard H ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Multitalker babble; Signal to babble ratio; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMETRICS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; VOCABULARY;

EID: 1542314942     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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