Real-time lexical competitions during speech-in-speech comprehension

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 246-253

  Boulenger, Véronique ^a   Hoen, Michel ^b   Ferragne, Emmanuel ^a   Pellegrino, François ^a   Meunier, Fanny ^a  

^a Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Informational masking; Lexical competition; Speech in noise

Indexed keywords

SPEECH; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

COGNITIVE PROCESS; COMPETITIVE MECHANISMS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; MULTI-TALKER BABBLE; SPEECH IN NOISE; TARGET AND BACKGROUND; WORD RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 73649108209     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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