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

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4369-4379

  Ihlefeld, Antje ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; ISOMERS; MULTITASKING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTORESISTS; RELUCTANCE MOTORS; SEPARATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TARGETS;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); ENERGETIC MASKING; ENERGY RATIO (ER); INFORMATIONAL MASKING (IM); PERIPHERAL (SPI); RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; SPATIAL CUES; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPECTRAL OVERLAPS; SPEECH IDENTIFICATION; TARGET SELECTION; TOP-DOWN; TWO SOURCES;

SPEECH;

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

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; COLOR; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MASSACHUSETTS; MATHEMATICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 44949258986     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2904826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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