Exploring the Relationship between Working Memory, Compressor Speed, and Background Noise Characteristics

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 137-143

  Ohlenforst, Barbara ^a   Souza, Pamela E ^b   MacDonald, Ewen N ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression; Hearing loss; Modulation; Release time; Speech intelligibility; Working Memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COMPRESSION; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84960337574     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: 15384667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000240     Document Type: Article

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