Spatial release from energetic and informational masking in a divided speech identification task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4380-4392

  Ihlefeld, Antje ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOMERS; MICROFLUIDICS; MULTITASKING;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); BROADBAND ENERGY; ENERGETIC MASKING; ERROR PATTERNS; INFORMATIONAL MASKING (IM); INTENSE (CO); SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPECTRAL OVERLAPS; SPEECH IDENTIFICATION;

SEPARATION;

ADULT; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HEARING; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 44949177434     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2904825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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