Effectiveness of computer-based auditory training in improving the perception of noise-vocoded speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2923-2935

  Stacey, Paula C ^a,b,c   Quentin Summerfield, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH CODING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUDITORY TRAINING; NOISE-VOCODED SPEECH; NORMAL-HEARING; VISUAL CONTROL;

AUDITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TONOTOPY; TRAINING; VISION; VOICE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEACHING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247876109     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2713668     Document Type: Article

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