Coherence masking protection for speech in children and adults

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2606-2623

  Nittrouer, Susan ^a   Tarr, Eric ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Perceptual learning; Psycholinguistics; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; FEMALE; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; FEMALE; GESTALT THEORY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81355148801     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0210-y     Document Type: Article

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