title: Adaptation to frozen babble in spoken word recognition.
abstract: Previous research has shown that listeners can adapt to particular samples of noise, a phenomenon known as "frozen noise" [Langhans and Kohlrausch, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 91, 3456-3470 (1992)]. However, no studies have reported a similar effect for multi-talker babble. The results of this study comparing open-set word recognition in multi-talker babble showed that listeners are significantly more accurate when the babble is fixed than when the babble is random. This documents the effect the authors refer to as "frozen babble."
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA. robfelty@indiana.edu
authors.forename: Robert Albert
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Felty
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buchwald
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Pisoni
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D013067:Speech Perception