The revised speech perception in noise test (R-SPIN) in a multiple signal-to-noise ratio paradigm

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 590-605

  Wilson, Richard H ^a,b   McArdl, Rachel ^a,c   Watt, Kelly L ^a,b   Smith, Sherri L ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Hearing loss; Speech perception; Speech recognition in multitalker babble

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; REVISED SPEECH PERCEPTION IN NOISE TEST; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; WORDS IN NOISE TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864852022     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.23.7.9     Document Type: Article

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