Simulating the effect of cochlear-implant electrode insertion depth on speech understanding

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 2993-2996

  Dorman, Michael F ^a,b   Loizou, Philipos C ^c   Rainey, Dawne ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030662183     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.420354     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. We used a "k" of 1.0 in Greenwood's equation and assumed a membrane length of 35 mm. If a shorter membrane (e.g., 33 mm) is assumed then the perceptual consequences of short insertion depths would be reduced.
2. Dorman, M., Loizou, P., and Rainey, D. (1997). "Speech intelligibility as a function of the number of channels of stimulation for signal processors using sine-wave and noise-band outputs," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102, 2403-2411.
3. Greenwood, D. (1990). "A cochlear frequency-position function for several species - 29 years later," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 2592-2605.
4. Hillenbrand, J., Getty, L., Clark, M., and Wheeler, K. (1995). "Acoustic characteristics of American English vowels," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 3099-3111.
5. Kileny, P., Zimmerman-Phillips, S., Zwolan, T., and Kemink, J. (1992). "Effects of channel number and place of stimulation on performance with the Cochlear Corporation multichannel implant," Am. J. Otolaryngol. 13(2), 117-123.
6. Miller, G., and Nicely, P. (1955). "An analysis of perceptual confusions among some English consonants," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 27, 338-346.
7. Nilsson, M., Soli, S., and Sullivan, J. (1994). "Development of the Hearing in Noise Test for the measurement of speech reception thresholds in quiet and noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95(2), 1085-1099.
8. Shannon, R., Zeng, F.-G., Kamath, V., Wygonski, J., and Ekelid, M. (1995). "Speech recognition with primarily temporal cues," Science 270, 303-304.
9. Tyler, R., Preece, J., and Lowder, M. (1987). "The Iowa audiovisual speech perception laser videodisc," Laser Videodisc and Laboratory Report, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, Iowa City, IA.