A psychophysical evaluation of spectral enhancement

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1121-1135

  DiGiovonni, Jeffrey J ^a   Nelson, Peggy B ^b   Schlauch, Robert S ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Psychoacoustics; Sensorineural hearing loss; Speech perception in noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; BIOMEDICAL ENHANCEMENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 31944435199     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/079)     Document Type: Article

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