Recognition of spectrally degraded phonemes by younger, middle-aged, and older normal-hearing listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3972-3988

  Schvartz, Kara C ^a   Chatterjee, Monita ^a   Gordon Salant, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; CHRONOLOGICAL AGES; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COGNITIVE CAPACITIES; COGNITIVE TESTS; CONSONANT RECOGNITION; INTRA GROUPS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; PRIMARY FACTORS; PROCESSING ABILITIES; SPECTRAL CHANNELS; VOWEL RECOGNITION;

AUDITION; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DIGITAL FILTERS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COGNITION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049088681     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2997434     Document Type: Article

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