Cocktail party listening in a dynamic multitalker environment

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-91

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REFERENCE VALUE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; CUES; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 34247467120     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194455     Document Type: Article

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