Preferential and non-preferential transmission of formant information by an analogue cochlear implant using noise: The role of the nerve threshold

Hearing Research

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 120-132

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

^a MacKay Inst Commun Neurosci S   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Linearization; Noise; Speech coding; Stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CODING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VOWEL;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; NOISE; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032793937     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(99)00063-5     Document Type: Article

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