The effects of speech and speechlike maskers on unaided and aided speech recognition in persons with hearing loss

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 432-447

  Hornsby, Benjamin W Y ^a   Ricketts, Todd A ^a   Johnson, Earl E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Informational masking; Perceptual masking; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 33749501267     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.17.6.5     Document Type: Article

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