The impact of reverberant self-masking and overlap-masking effects on speech intelligibility by cochlear implant listeners (L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1099-1102

  Kokkinakis, Kostas ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR IMPLANT LISTENERS; FORMANT TRANSITIONS; OVERLAP-MASKING; RELATIVE IMPACT; REVERBERANT CONDITION; SELF-MASKING;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; LINGUISTICS; REVERBERATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 80052546770     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3614539     Document Type: Article

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