The effect of hearing impairment on the identification of speech that is modulated synchronously or asynchronously across frequency

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 955-962

  Hall III, Joseph W ^a   Buss, Emily ^a   Grose, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEARING AIDS; INFORMATION THEORY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

ASYNCHRONOUS MODULATION; ASYNCHRONOUS SPECTRAL INFORMATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSSES; SPEECH IDENTIFICATION; SPEECH TOKENS; SYNCHRONOUS MODULATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38849177515     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2821967     Document Type: Article

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