Combined effects of noise and reverberation on speech recognition performance of normal-hearing children and adults

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 336-344

  Neuman, Arlene C ^a   Wroblewski, Marcin ^a   Hajicek, Joshua ^a   Rubinstein, Adrienne ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEARING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 77951977960     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181d3d514     Document Type: Article

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