The detection of differences in the cues to distance by elderly hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1077-1089

  Akeroyd, Michael A ^a   Gatehouse, Stuart ^a   Blaschke, Julia ^b  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVES; LOUDSPEAKERS; REVERBERATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

CIRCULAR ARRAYS; HEARING IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HEARING LEVELS; SIGNAL AUDITORY DISTANCE;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRESBYCUSIS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846655031     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2404927     Document Type: Article

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