Effects of moderate cochlear hearing loss on the ability to benefit from temporal fine structure information in speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1140-1153

  Hopkins, Kathryn ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a   Stone, Michael A ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BANDPASS FILTERS; INFORMATION THEORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL LOGIC; VOCODERS;

CHANNEL SIGNALS; COCHLEAR HEARING LOSS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLDS (SRTS); TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE (TFS);

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38849143946     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2824018     Document Type: Article

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