Adaptation to frozen babble in spoken word recognition

被引:22
作者
Felty, Robert Albert [1 ]
Buchwald, Adam [1 ,2 ]
Pisoni, David B. [1 ]
机构
[1] Indiana Univ, Dept Psychol & Brain Sci, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[2] NYU, Dept Speech Language Pathol & Audiol, Steinhardt Sch Culture Educ & Human Dev, New York, NY 10012 USA
关键词
hearing; speech recognition; LISTENERS; NOISE;
D O I
10.1121/1.3073733
中图分类号
O42 [声学];
学科分类号
070206 ; 082403 ;
摘要
Previous research has shown that listeners can adapt to particular samples of noise, a phenomenon known as "frozen noise" [Langhans and Kohlrausch, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 3456-3470 (1992)]. However, no studies have reported a similar effect for multi-talker babble. The results of this study comparing open-set word recognition in multi-talker babble showed that listeners are significantly more accurate when the babble is fixed than when the babble is random. This documents the effect the authors refer to as "frozen babble.".
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页码:EL93 / EL97
页数:5
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