Objective measures of listening effort: Effects of background noise and noise reduction

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1230-1240

  Sarampalis, Anastasios ^a,c   Kalluri, Sridhar ^b   Edwards, Brent ^b   Hafter, Ervin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Starkey Corporation (Hearing Research Center)   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEARING AID; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349354193     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2009/08-0111)     Document Type: Article

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