The importance of temporal fine structure information in speech at different spectral regions for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1595-1608

  Hopkins, Kathryn ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSS FREQUENCY REGIONS; CENTER FREQUENCY; HILBERT TRANSFORM; LOW FREQUENCY; PSYCHOPHYSICAL MEASURES; SPECTRAL REGION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; SPEECH SIGNALS; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

BENCHMARKING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUDITION;

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950434428     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3293003     Document Type: Article

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