Influence of musical training on understanding voiced and whispered speech in noise

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ruggles, Dorea R ^a   Freyman, Richard L ^b   Oxenham, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MUSIC; MUSICAL TRAINING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SOUND INTENSITY; SPECTRUM; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900321924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086980     Document Type: Article

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