Target identification using relative level in multi-talker listening

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2899-2909

  Kitterick, Pádraig T ^a   Clarke, Emmet ^a   Oshea, Charlotte ^a   Seymour, Josephine ^a   Quentin Summerfield, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT IDENTIFICATIONS; INDIRECT IDENTIFICATION; PRESENTATION LEVEL; PSYCHOMETRIC FUNCTION; SPATIAL LOCATION; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TARGET WORDS;

ACOUSTICS;

PHYSICS;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME FACTORS; VOICE QUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877617220     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4799810     Document Type: Article

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