Forward and Backward Masking of Consonants in School-Age Children and Adults

Conclusions Child –adult differences were greater for backward than forward masking for speech in a nonsimultaneous noise masker, as observed in previous psychophysical studies using tonal stimuli. Children's greater susceptibility to nonsimultaneous masking, and backward masking in particular, could play a role in their limited ability to benefit from masker envelope modulation when recognizing masked speech.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research