Effect of target-masker similarity on across-ear interference in a dichotic cocktail-party listening task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1724-1734

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

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPEECH PROCESSING;

BINAURAL SELECTIVE ATTENTION TASKS; DICHOTIC LISTENING; TARGET-MASKER SIMILARITY;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DICHOTIC LISTENING; EAR; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS;

EID: 35248867026     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2756797     Document Type: Article

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