Speech intelligibility and recall of spoken material heard at different signal-to-noise ratios and the role played by working memory capacity

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 198-203

  Ljung, Robert ^a   Israelsson, Karl ^a   Hygge, Staffan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY CAPACITY;

EID: 84875581183     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.2896     Document Type: Article

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