Binaural release from informational masking in a speech identification task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1614-1625

  Gallun, Frederick J ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEADPHONES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE;

BINAURAL CUES; EQUALIZATION-CANCELLATION MODEL; INFORMATIONAL MASKING (IM);

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGETIC MASKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24944433093     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1984876     Document Type: Conference Paper

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