Sentence recognition in noise promoting or suppressing masking release by normal-hearing and cochlear-implant listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3111-3119

  Kwon, Bomjun J ^a   Perry, Trevor T ^a   Wilhelm, Cassie L ^a   Healy, Eric W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863112062     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3688511     Document Type: Article

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