Speech perception in gated noise: The effects of temporal resolution

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3097-3108

  Jin, Su Hyun ^a   Nelson, Peggy B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

CV SYLLABLES; NORMAL HEARING LISTENERS (NH); STEADY NOISE;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646458539     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2188688     Document Type: Article

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