The effects of hearing loss on the contribution of high- and low- frequency speech information to speech understanding. II. Sloping hearing loss

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1752-1763

  Hornsby, Benjamin W Y ^a   Ricketts, Todd A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSSES; SPEECH INFORMATION;

AUDITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33644641088     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2161432     Document Type: Article

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