Localization in speech mixtures by listeners with hearing loss

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Best, Virginia ^a,d   Carlile, Simon ^a   Kopčo, Norbert ^b   Van Schaik, André ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL GROUPS; HEARING LOSS; NORMAL HEARING; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; SMALL ROOMS; SPATIAL HEARING; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS;

AUDITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959612786     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3571534     Document Type: Article

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