The spatial unmasking of speech: Evidence for better-ear listening

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1539-1545

  Edmonds, Barrie A ^a   Culling, John F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HEADPHONES; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

HIGH-FREQUENCY INTERFERER BANDS; LOW-FREQUENCY BANDS; MONAURAL CONDITIONS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRT);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748525262     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2228573     Document Type: Article

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