Enhancement of vowel coding for cochlear implants by addition of noise

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 928-932

  Morse, Robert P ^a   Evans, Edward F ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; VOWEL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NOISE; SCIATIC NERVE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029821151     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0896-928     Document Type: Article

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