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Venezia, Jonathan H.; Leek, Marjorie R.; Lindeman, Michael P. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Age-related declines in auditory temporal processing and cognition make older listeners vulnerable to interference from competing speech. This vulnerability may be increased in older listeners with sensorineural hearing loss due to additional effects of spectral distortion and accelerated cognitive decline. The goal of this study was to…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Auditory Perception, Older Adults, Hearing Impairments
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Gygi, Brian; Shafiro, Valeriy – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
The effect of context on the identification of common environmental sounds (e.g., dogs barking or cars honking) was tested by embedding them in familiar auditory background scenes (street ambience, restaurants). Initial results with subjects trained on both the scenes and the sounds to be identified showed a significant advantage of about five…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Context Effect, Identification