Speech reception by listeners with real and simulated hearing impairment: Effects of continuous and interrupted noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 342-359

  Desloge, Joseph G ^a   Reed, Charlotte M ^a   Braida, Louis D ^a   Perez, Zachary D ^a   Delhorne, Lorraine A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE EFFECTS; CENTER FREQUENCY; HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; MULTIBAND; NOISE RATIO; NOISE TEST; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; OCTAVE BANDS; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; SMALL SAMPLES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; SPEECH RECEPTION; SQUARE-WAVE;

AUDITION; CURVE FITTING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS;

EID: 77955179435     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3436522     Document Type: Article

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