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Peer reviewedAllen, Prudence; Wightman, Frederic – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1994
A 2-alternative forced-choice task was used to measure the ability of 18 children (ages 3 to 5) to detect varying levels of sinusoids in noise. Results showed that, on average, the children's thresholds were higher and the slopes of their psychometric functions were shallower than those of adults, though between-subjects variability was large.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Hearing (Physiology)
Peer reviewedGagne, Jean-Pierre; And Others – Volta Review, 1995
This study compared speech intelligibility for sentences spoken either conversationally or in a clear manner under three conditions: auditory only, visual only, and audiovisually. Overall, in each condition, speech intelligibility improved significantly for the tokens of clear speech. Some interaction between speaker and manner of speech was…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Communication Skills, Individual Differences, Sensory Integration
