The interpretation of speech reception threshold data in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners: Steady-state noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2987-2998

  Smits, Cas ^a   Festen, Joost M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HEARING LOSS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; SCORING METHODS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY INDEX; SPEECH MATERIALS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; TARGET POINT;

AUDITION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 81355150797     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3644909     Document Type: Article

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