A comparison of two word-recognition tasks in multitalker babble: Speech recognition in noise test (SPRINT) and words-in-noise test (WIN)

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 548-556

  Wilson, Richard H ^a,b   Cates, Wendy B ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b East Tennessee State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Hearing loss; Speech perception; Word recognition in multitalker babble

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENTAL TASK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION IN NOISE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD IN NOISE TEST; WORD RECOGNITION; ATTENTION; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PRESBYACUSIS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PRESBYCUSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63149117446     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.19.7.4     Document Type: Article

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