Evidence for a "reverse cocktail party" effect in a three-talker dichotic listening task

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 564-566

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ATTENUATION; AUDITION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COORDINATE RESPONSE MEASURE (CRM); DICHOTIC LISTENING; MASKERS; SPEECH SIGNALS;

SPEECH;

EID: 19544371946     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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