Speech intelligibility in free field: Spatial unmasking in preschool children

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1047-1055

  Garadat, Soha N ^a   Litovsky, Ruth Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AMPLIFICATION; AUDITION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

AUDITORY MECHANISMS; BILATERAL FITTINGS; SPATIAL UNMASKING; SPEECH RECEPTION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 33846673263     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2409863     Document Type: Article

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