The perception of apparent auditory source width in hearing-impaired adults

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3548-3559

  Whitmer, William M ^a   Seeber, Bernhard U ^b,c   Akeroyd, Michael A ^a  

^a GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOUDSPEAKERS;

AUDITORY SOURCE WIDTH; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; FINE STRUCTURES; HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS; IMPAIRED HEARINGS; PARTIALLY COHERENT; PHASE SHIFTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSON; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84903120569     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4875575     Document Type: Article

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