Masker location uncertainty reveals evidence for suppression of maskers in two-talker contexts

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2043-2053

  Allen, Kachina ^a   Alais, David ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara ^b   Carlile, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; INTERFERING SOURCES; LOCATION UNCERTAINTY; PHONEME IDENTIFICATION; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SPATIAL ATTENTION; TARGET LOCATION; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

EXPERIMENTS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 82255173907     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3631666     Document Type: Article

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