Informational masking release in children and adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 1605-1613

  Hall III, Joseph W ^a   Buss, Emily ^a   Grose, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MASKS;

ADULTS; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; TONE BURSTS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BINAURAL HEARING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 24944443353     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1992675     Document Type: Article

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