Development, reliability, and validity of PRESTO: A new high-variability sentence recognition test

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 26-36

  Gilbert, Jaimie L ^a,c   Tamati, Terrin N ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING IN NOISE TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTUALLY ROBUST ENGLISH SENTENCE TEST OPEN SET; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NOISE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871319080     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.24.1.4     Document Type: Article

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