Interactions between pulse separation and pulse polarity order in cochlear implants

Hearing Research

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 21-33

  Miller, Amy L ^a   Morris, Deborah J ^a   Pfingst, Bryan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory prosthesis; Cochlear implant; Electrical stimulation; Nonhuman primate; Polarity; Psychophysics; Pulse separation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA RADIATA; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 0030879743     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(97)00037-3     Document Type: Article

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