Speech recognition as a function of high-pass filter cutoff frequency for people with and without low-frequency cochlear dead regions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 542-553

  Vinay, ^a,c   Moore, Brian C J ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF SPEECH AND HEARING   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; DIAGNOSIS; HEARING AIDS; NEURONS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

COCHLEA; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; HIGH-PASS FILTER; NONSENSE SYLLABLES;

HIGH PASS FILTERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FILTER DESIGN; HUMAN; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TUNING CURVE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEARING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 34547404327     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2722055     Document Type: Article

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