A cocktail party model of spatial release from masking by both noise and speech interferersa

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1463-1474

  Jones, Gary L ^a,b   Litovsky, Ruth Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SEPARATION; COCKTAIL PARTY; COMPUTATIONALLY INTENSIVE ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS; MODIFIED MODEL; SPEECH MASKERS; STRONG TEST; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052544512     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3613928     Document Type: Article

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