Auditory Enhancement and Suppression in Normal-Hearing Persons with Reduced Speech Recognition in Noise

Monday, November 5, 1990 4:00 p.m. Dr. Linda M. Thibodeau Department of Speech Communication The University of Texas at Austin Auditory enhancement and suppression have been suggested as possible mechanisms underlying one’s ability to understand speech. Using a forward-masking paradigm, enhancement and suppression effects were evaluated in two groups of normal-hearing persons who differed in…