Word recognition in multitalker babble measured with two psychophysical methods

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 622-630

  Wilson, Richard H ^a,b   Burks, Christopher A ^a   Weakley, Deborah G ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Multitalker babble; Signal to babble ratio; Speech perception; Word recognition performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SELF EVALUATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 31444435632     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.16.8.11     Document Type: Article

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