Factors affecting masking release for speech in modulated noise for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2295-2311

  George, Erwin L J ^a   Festen, Joost M ^a   Houtgast, Tammo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE-MODULATED NOISES; MASKER MODULATIONS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SUPRATHRESHOLD DEFICITS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749545997     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2266530     Document Type: Article

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