The effects of hearing loss and age on the benefit of spatial separation between multiple talkers in reverberant rooms

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3064-3075

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

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; HEARING LOSSES; HEARING SENSITIVITIES; PERCEPTUAL FACTORS; REVERBERANT ROOMS; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; SPATIAL SEPARATIONS;

AUDITION; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ISOMERS; TARGETS; THEOREM PROVING;

REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STIMULUS;

AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 56749184255     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2980441     Document Type: Article

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