The role of segmentation difficulties in speech-in-speech understanding in older and hearing-impaired adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Woodfield, Alexandra ^a   Akeroyd, Michael A ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; LEXICAL LEVEL; OLDER PEOPLE; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; CUES; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS;

EID: 77955209358     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3443570     Document Type: Article

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