Effect of age on binaural speech intelligibility in normal hearing adults

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 591-597

  Kim, SungHee ^a,b   Frisina, Robert D ^a,b   Mapes, Frances M ^b   Hickman, Elizabeth D ^b   Frisina, D Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; HINT; Presbycusis; Speech intelligibility in noise

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGE; HINT; PRESBYCUSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY IN NOISE;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 33646242766     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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