Listening effort at signal-to-noise ratios that are typical of the school classroom

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 928-932

  Howard, Clare S ^a,b   Munro, Kevin J ^a   Plack, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitive resources; Dual task; Listening effort; Multitasking; Signal to noise ratio; Top down processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCHOOLS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78349300136     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14992027.2010.520036     Document Type: Article

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