title: Psychometric properties of the coordinate response measure corpus with various types of background interference.
abstract: The coordinate response measure (CRM) corpus has gained broad acceptance as a research tool for investigating speech intelligibility in background competition and has been widely used in studies of informational masking. The purpose of this study is to establish the psychometric characteristics of CRM target-word identification in various backgrounds with the goal of being able to determine when it is appropriate or not to use adaptive threshold procedures with the CRM corpus. Target-word identification performance based on adaptive tracking mapped directly onto the monotonic psychometric functions obtained for two-talker, four-talker, and cafeteria noise interferers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Global Center for Hearing & Speech Research, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, PCD 1017, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA. deddins@usf.edu
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Eddins
authors.forename: Chang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D009622:Noise; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D059629:Signal-To-Noise Ratio; D013065:Speech Intelligibility / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult