Perceptual learning for speech in noise after application of binary time-frequency masks

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1687-1692

  Ahmadi, Mahnaz ^a,b   Gross, Vauna L ^a   Sinex, Donal G ^a,c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOUSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORMAL HEARING; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SPEECH IN NOISE; THRESHOLD CRITERION; TRAINING SESSIONS; WORD RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION SCORES;

AUDITION; MIXTURES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NOISE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874907305     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4789896     Document Type: Article

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