Spatial release from masking in normally hearing and hearing-impaired listeners as a function of the temporal overlap of competing talkers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1616-1625

  Best, Virginia ^a   Mason, Christine R ^a   Kidd Jr , Gerald ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; MONOSYLLABIC WORDS; NORMAL HEARING; ONE-FACTOR; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; SPATIAL UNMASKING; SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH SOUNDS; TEMPORAL OVERLAP;

AUDITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS;

EID: 79953032461     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3533733     Document Type: Article

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