The effects of working memory capacity and semantic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2225-2234

  Zekveld, Adriana A ^a,b   Rudner, Mary ^a   Johnsrude, Ingrid S ^a,c   Rönnberg, Jerker ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; MASKING SOUNDS; SENTENCE RECOGNITION; SPEECH IN NOISE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD; STATIONARY NOISE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883345850     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4817926     Document Type: Article

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