Acoustic hemifields in the spatial release from masking of speech by noise

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 518-524

  Phillips, Dennis P ^a   Vigneault MacLean, B K ^a   Boehnke, S E ^a   Hall, S E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic hemifield; Hearing in Noise Test; Noise; Spatial masking; Speech reception threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 1642602750     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.14.9.7     Document Type: Article

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