Directional benefit in the presence of speech and speechlike maskers

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-16

  Hornsby, Benjamin W Y ^a   Ricketts, Todd A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional benefit; Energetic masking; Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Informational masking; Speech intelligibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846512986     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.18.1.2     Document Type: Article

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