Factors affecting speech understanding in gated interference: Cochlear implant users and normal-hearing listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 2286-2294

  Nelson, Peggy B ^a,b   Jin, Su Hyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b 115 Shevlin Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS; AUDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

IMPLANT LISTENERS; NOISE MODULATION; SPEECH-SHAPED NOISE;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 2142649299     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1703538     Document Type: Article

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