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- Title
Localization in speech mixtures by listeners with hearing loss.
- Authors
Best, Virginia; Carlile, Simon; Kopco, Norbert; van Schaik, André
- Abstract
The ability of listeners with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss to localize a speech source in a multitalker mixture was measured. Five simultaneous words spoken by different talkers were presented over loudspeakers in a small room, and listeners localized one target word. Errors were significantly larger in this group compared to a control group with normal hearing. Localization of the target presented alone was not different between groups. The results suggest that hearing loss does not impair spatial hearing per se, but degrades the spatial representation of multiple simultaneous sounds.
- Publication
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011, Vol 129, Issue 5, pEL210
- ISSN
1520-8524
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1121/1.3571534