Musicians and non-musicians are equally adept at perceiving masked speech

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 378-387

  Boebinger, Dana ^a   Evans, Samuel ^a   Rosen, Stuart ^b   Lima, César F ^c   Manly, Tom ^d   Scott, Sophie K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS;

BACKGROUND NOISE; COGNITIVE ABILITY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; INFORMATIONAL MASKING; SPEECH IN NOISE; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD;

SPEECH;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; OCCUPATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STROOP TEST; TIME PERCEPTION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; OCCUPATIONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STROOP TEST; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923833133     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4904537     Document Type: Article

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