Interrupted speech perception: The effects of hearing sensitivity and frequency resolution

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 881-889

  Jin, Su Hyun ^a   Nelson, Peggy B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; FILTER BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY RESOLUTIONS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING SENSITIVITY; HEARING THRESHOLD; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LOW FREQUENCY; MID-FREQUENCY; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SEGREGATION OF SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SPEECH SIGNALS; STEADY NOISE;

AUDITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955779867     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3458851     Document Type: Article

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