Transient Auditory Storage of Acoustic Details Is Associated With Release of Speech From Informational Masking in Reverberant Conditions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1618-1628

  Huang, Ying ^a,b   Huang, Qiang ^a,b   Chen, Xun ^a,b   Wu, Xihong ^a,b   Li, Liang ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (China)

^b Key Laboratory on Machine Perception (Ministry of Education)   (China)

Author keywords

auditory memory; energetic masking; informational masking; reverberation; temporal integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350496339     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015791     Document Type: Article

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