Better-ear glimpsing efficiency with symmetrically-placed interfering talkers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2545-2556

  Brungart, Douglas S ^a   Iyer, Nandini ^b  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; NATURAL FLUCTUATIONS; NORMAL HEARING; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); SPEECH SIGNALS; SPEECH STIMULI; TARGET SPEECH;

AUDITION; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; EAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867338435     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4747005     Document Type: Article

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