Assessing listening effort by measuring short-term memory storage and processing of speech in noise

Speech, Language and Hearing

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 123-132

  Rönnberg, Niklas ^a   Rudner, Mary ^a   Lunner, Thomas ^a,b   Stenfelt, Stefan ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b OTICON A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cognition; Listening effort; Speech in noise; Updating; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907570039     PISSN: 2050571X     EISSN: 20505728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2050572813Y.0000000033     Document Type: Article

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