On the use of the distortion-sensitivity approach in examining the role of linguistic abilities in speech understanding in noise

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1702-1708

  Theo Goverts, S ^a   Huysmans, Elke ^a   Kramer, Sophia E ^a   de Groot, Annette M B ^b   Houtgast, Tammo ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distortion sensitivity; Linguistic abilities; Speech in noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83655164275     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/09-0268)     Document Type: Article

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