A Speech Processor with Lateral Inhibition for an Eight Channel Cochlear Implant and its Evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-34, Issue 11, 1987, Pages 876-882

  Ifukube, Tohru ^a   White, Robert L ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - SURGICAL IMPLANTS; ELECTRIC FILTERS, BANDPASS; ELECTRODES - ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS - MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUDITORY CRITICAL BAND; EIGHT CHANNEL COCHLEAR IMPLANT; LATERAL INHIBITION CIRCUIT; PERCUTANEOUS CONNECTOR; SCALA TYMPANI ELECTRODE;

SPEECH;

COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; SPEECH PROCESSOR; THERAPY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMAN; PHONETICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023526308     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1987.326008     Document Type: Article

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