Speech recognition in noise: Estimating effects of compressive nonlinearities in the basilar-membrane response

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 682-693

  Horwitz, Amy R ^a,b   Ahlstrom, Jayne B ^a   Dubno, Judy R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 34548394457     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31812f7156     Document Type: Article

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