Effects of in-the-ear microphone directionality on sound direction identification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2264-2275

  Chung, King ^a,c   Neuman, Arlene C ^b,d   Higgins, Michael ^b  

^a Lexington School for the Deaf & Center for the Deaf   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING AIDS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONES; OMNIDIRECTIONAL MICROPHONES; SOUND SOURCES; SPEECH LEVELS;

MICROPHONES;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MICROPHONE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH;

AMPLIFIERS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 41849134677     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2883744     Document Type: Article

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