The Words-in-Noise (WIN) test with multitalker babble and speech-spectrum noise maskers

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 522-529

  Wilson, Richard H ^a,b   Carnell, Crystal S ^a,b   Cleghorn, Amber L ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Hearing loss; Multitalker babble; Speech perception; Speech spectrum noise; Word recognition in multitalker babble

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34848868111     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.18.6.7     Document Type: Article

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