ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2017
Simultaneous and forward masking of vowels and stop consonants: Effects of age, hearing loss, and spectral shaping.
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- Effects of age on brainstem coding of speech glimpses in interrupted noise.Hearing research · 2023Article
- Can Closed-Set Word Recognition Differentially Assess Vowel and Consonant Perception for School-Age Children With and Without Hearing Loss?Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2022Article
- Distorted Tonotopy Severely Degrades Neural Representations of Connected Speech in Noise following Acoustic Trauma.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- The effect of aging on identification of Mandarin consonants in normal and whisper registers.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Phonological and semantic similarity of misperceived words in babble: Effects of sentence context, age, and hearing loss.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- Age effects on the contributions of envelope and periodicity cues to recognition of interrupted speech in quiet and with a competing talker.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2019Article
- Forward Masking of the Speech-Evoked Auditory Brainstem Response.Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology · 2018Article
- Word Identification With Temporally Interleaved Competing Sounds by Younger and Older Adult Listeners.Ear and hearingArticle
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Abstract
Fluctuating noise, common in everyday environments, has the potential to mask acoustic cues important for speech recognition. This study examined the extent to which acoustic cues for perception of vowels and stop consonants differ in their susceptibility to simultaneous and forward masking. Younger normal-hearing, older normal-hearing, and older hearing-impaired adults identified initial and final consonants or vowels in noise-masked syllables that had been spectrally shaped. The amount of shaping was determined by subjects' audiometric thresholds. A second group of younger adults with normal hearing was tested with spectral shaping determined by the mean audiogram of the hearing-impaired group. Stimulus timing ensured that the final 10, 40, or 100 ms of the syllable occurred after the masker offset. Results demonstrated that participants benefited from short temporal delays between the noise and speech for vowel identification, but required longer delays for stop consonant identification. Older adults with normal and impaired hearing, with sufficient audibility, required longer delays to obtain performance equivalent to that of the younger adults. Overall, these results demonstrate that in forward masking conditions, younger listeners can successfully identify vowels during short temporal intervals (i.e., one unmasked pitch period), with longer durations required for consonants and for older adults.
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