Temporal and spectral masking release in low- and mid-frequency regions for normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1502-1514

  Léger, Agnès C ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^b,c   Lorenzi, Christian ^a,c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE-MODULATED; AUDIOMETRIC THRESHOLDS; CONSONANT IDENTIFICATION; FREQUENCY REGIONS; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; MID-FREQUENCY; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPECTRAL MASKING; SUPRATHRESHOLD;

LINGUISTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITION;

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857389259     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3665993     Document Type: Article

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