Tuning in the spatial dimension: Evidence from a masked speech identification task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1146-1158

  Marrone, Nicole ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOMERS; SEPARATION; SPEECH; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); TUNING;

BINAURAL CUES; FOCUS-OF-ATTENTION; IMPROVED PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL DIMENSIONS; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPATIAL TUNING; SPEECH IDENTIFICATION;

TARGETS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EAR; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 49249123911     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2945710     Document Type: Article

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