Interactive effects of high-pass filtering and masking noise on word recognition

Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 867-878

  Elangovan, Saravanan ^a   Stuart, Andrew ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Temporal masking; Temporal resolution; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 32544459115     PISSN: 00034894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000348940511401111     Document Type: Article

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