Effects of target-masker contextual similarity on the multimasker penalty in a three-talker diotic listening task

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2998-3010

  Iyer, Nandini ^a   Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Simpson, Brian D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERING SOUNDS; SPEECH MASKERS; VOICE CHARACTERISTICS;

DEGRADATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EXPERIMENTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DICHOTIC LISTENING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CUES; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649625658     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3479547     Document Type: Article

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