Effects of reverberation on speech recognition in stationary and modulated noise by school-aged children and young adults

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 731-744

  Wróblewski, Marcin ^a,b   Lewis, Dawna E ^a   Valente, Daniel L ^a   Stelmachowicz, Patricia G ^a  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871651009     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31825aecad     Document Type: Article

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