Priming and sentence context support listening to noise-vocoded speech by younger and older adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 489-499

  Sheldon, Signy ^a   Pichora Fuller, M Kathleen ^a   Schneider, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; WHITE NOISE;

COGNITIVE PROCESSING; SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE VOCODED SPEECH; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD; SENTENCE CONTEXT SUPPORT LISTENING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PRIMING; SPEECH THERAPY; WHITE NOISE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 37849010257     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2783762     Document Type: Article

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