Effects of amplitude nonlinearity on phoneme recognition by cochlear implant users and normal-hearing listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2570-2577

  Fu, Qian Jie ^a   Shannon, Robert V ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DEAFNESS; HEARING; HUMANS; HYPERACUSIS; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031734376     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.423912     Document Type: Article

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