The effect of visual distraction on auditory-visual speech perception by younger and older listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2017, Pages EL470-EL476

  Cohen, Julie I ^a   Gordon Salant, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

AUDITORY-VISUAL; OLDER ADULTS; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; REAL-WORLD; SPEECH IN NOISE; SPEECH STIMULI; VISUAL DISTRACTIONS; VISUAL DISTRACTORS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASKING; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEORECORDING; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85019694623     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4983399     Document Type: Article

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