Perceptual adaptation and intelligibility of multiple talkers for two types of degraded speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2660-2669

  Bent, Tessa ^a   Buchwald, Adam ^b   Pisoni, David B ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR IMPLANT; DEGRADATION CONDITION; MULTI-TALKER BABBLE;

DEGRADATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449369186     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3212930     Document Type: Article

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