Auditory and auditory-visual intelligibility of speech in fluctuating maskers for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3358-3372

  Bernstein, Joshua G W ^a   Grant, Ken W ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY VISUALS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; PERFORMANCE LEVELS; REASONABLE PROPORTIONS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIOS; STATIONARY NOISE; TARGET SPEECH; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 65549120772     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3110132     Document Type: Article

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