Auditory temporal resolution in normal-hearing preschool children revealed by word recognition in continuous and interrupted noise (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1946-1949

  Stuart, Andrew ^a   Givens, Gregg D ^a   Walker, Letitia J ^a,b   Elangovan, Saravanan ^a,c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDITION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AUDITORY TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; INTERRUPTED NOISE; NORMAL-HEARING; PRESCHOOL CHILDREN;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645369979     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2178700     Document Type: Article

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