Recognition of filtered words in noise at higher-than-normal levels: Decreases in scores with and without increases in masking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 923-933

  Dubno, Judy R ^a   Horwitz, Amy R ^a   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; HIGH PASS FILTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MASKING GROWTH; PURE-TONE THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL LEVELS; SPEECH-SHAPED MASKERS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE THRESHOLD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 23744452426     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1953127     Document Type: Article

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