Contributions of talker characteristics and spatial location to auditory streaming

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1562-1570

  Allen, Kachina ^a   Carlile, Simon ^a   Alais, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; DATA ACQUISITION;

AUDITORY STREAMING; SPATIAL LOCATION; TALKER CHARACTERISTICS;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY STREAMING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 40749116791     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2831774     Document Type: Article

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