Individual differences in auditory discrimination of spectral shape and speech-identification performance among elderly listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1131-1142

  Shrivastav, Mini N ^a,b   Humes, Larry E ^a   Kewley Port, Diane ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUE; COMPUTER-SYNTHESIZED SPEECH STIMULI; SPECTRAL SHAPE; SPEECH-IDENTIFICATION PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HEARING AIDS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUDITION;

AGED; AGING; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 31744442915     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2151794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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