Towards more cognitively challenging speech tests
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2013Author
Best, Virginia
Keidser, Gitte
Buchholz, Jorg
Freeston, Katrina
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Speech tests are often poor predictors of the
performance of individual listeners in the real world. This
may be in part because they do not adequately engage
all of the auditory and cognitive processes involved in
real communication tasks. Our aim is to create new
speech tests that provide more relevant performance
measures. Here we examined the effects of (a)
introducing a more realistic acoustic environment, and (b)
moving to a more natural and engaging speech task on
the speech reception threshold in noise (SRTn).