Speech-in-noise difficulty varies with target predictability and background signal-to-noise ratio manipulations

Evidence

This study manipulated the characteristics of the listening situation in two ways: first, target stimuli were either isolated words, or words heard in the context of low- (LP) and high-predictability (HP) sentences; second, the background sound, speech-modulated noise, was presented at two signal-to-noise ratios. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1227

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies what low- and high-predictability sentences mean as experimental stimuli, and speech-modulated noise as background.