A frequency-selective feedback model of auditory efferent suppression and its implications for the recognition of speech in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1535-1541

  Clark, Nicholas R ^a   Brown, Guy J ^b   Jürgens, Tim ^a   Meddis, Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CHANNEL; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; COMPUTER MODELS; CONNECTED DIGITS; FEED-BACK LOOP; FEEDBACK MODEL; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; INTERFERING SOUNDS; MULTI-CHANNEL MODEL; MULTI-TALKER BABBLE; NOISE INTERFERENCE; SPECTRAL SHAPES;

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AUDITORY PATHWAYS; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE;

EID: 84866291718     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4742745     Document Type: Article

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