Effects of aging on the ability to benefit from prior knowledge of message content in masked speech recognition

Speech Communication

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 529-542

  Wu, Meihong ^a   Li, Huahui ^a   Hong, Zhiling ^a   Xian, Xinchi ^a   Li, Jingyu ^a   Wu, Xihong ^a   Li, Liang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

"Cocktail party" problem; Auditory aging; Content priming; Energetic masking; Informational masking; Speech recognition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

COCKTAIL-PARTY PROBLEM; CONTENT PRIMING; ENERGETIC MASKING; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; WORKING MEMORIES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84856594981     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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