Effect of fast-acting compression on modulation detection interference for normal hearing and hearing impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3654-3665

  Shen, Yi ^a   Lentz, Jennifer J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; MODULATION DEPTH; MODULATION DETECTION; NARROW-BAND NOISE; NORMAL HEARING; SINE-WAVE MODULATION; SQUARE WAVE MODULATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953606024     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3418684     Document Type: Article

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