Evaluating the Benefit of Hearing Aids in Solving the Cocktail Party Problem

Trends in Amplification

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 300-315

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

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

hearing aids; informational masking; reverberation; selective attention; spatial benefit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE REDUCTION; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56249131824     PISSN: 10847138     EISSN: 19405588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084713808325880     Document Type: Article

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