Temporal jitter disrupts speech intelligibility: A simulation of auditory aging

Hearing Research

Volumn 223, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 114-121

  Pichora Fuller, M Kathleen ^a   Schneider, Bruce A ^a   MacDonald, Ewen ^b   Pass, Hollis E ^c   Brown, Sasha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Neural synchrony; Speech intelligibility; Temporal jitter; Word identification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; NERVOUSNESS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NOISE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 33845673373     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.10.009     Document Type: Article

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