Perceiving the speech of multiple concurrent talkers in a combined divided and selective attention task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Shafiro, Valeriy ^a   Gygi, Brian ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b East Bay Institute for Research and Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY THEORY;

CALLSIGN KEYWORDS; DIOTIC LISTENING; MULTI-TALKER STIMULUS; MULTIPLE CONCURRENT TALKERS; SELECTIVE ATTENTION TASKS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 38849133004     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2806174     Document Type: Article

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