Effects of stimulus and noise rate variability on speech perception by younger and older adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1808-1817

  Gordon Salant, Sandra ^a   Fitzgibbons, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SYNTACTICS;

NOISE RATE VARIABILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 1842530194     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1645249     Document Type: Article

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