Asynchronous glimpsing of speech: Spread of masking and task set-size

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1152-1164

  Ozmeral, Erol J ^a   Buss, Emily ^a   Hall III, Joseph W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSONANT RECOGNITION; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; TARGET SPEECH; WIDE FREQUENCY BANDS; WORD RECOGNITION;

FREQUENCY BANDS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECOGNITION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865105419     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4730976     Document Type: Article

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