Discourse Comprehension and Informational Masking: The Effect of Age, Semantic Content, and Acoustic Similarity
It is often difficult for people to understand speech when there are other ongoing conversations in the background. This dissertation investigates how different background maskers interfere with our ability to comprehend speech and the reasons why older listeners have more difficulties than younger...
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| Language: | en_ca |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43631 |