The Effect of Remote Masking on the Reception of Speech by Young School-Age Children

Conclusions In accord with psychoacoustic data, young children do not appear to focus on a spectral region of interest and ignore other regions during speech recognition. This tendency may help account for their typically poorer speech perception in noise. This study also appears to capture an important developmental stage, during which a substantial refinement in spectral listening occurs.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research