Spatial release from masking as a function of the spectral overlap of competing talkers(L)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3677-3680

  Best, Virginia ^a,b   Thompson, Eric R ^a,c   Mason, Christine R ^a   Kidd, Gerald ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH;

ENERGETIC MASKING; HEARING LOSS; LISTENING-IN; NARROW BANDS; PERFORMANCE; SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; SPECTRAL OVERLAP; SPEECH MASKERS; SPEECH-ON-SPEECH MASKING;

AUDITION;

EID: 84878925979     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4803517     Document Type: Article

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