Basics of hearing theory and noise in cochlear implants

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1875-1884

  Rattay, Frank ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; CAPACITANCE; CELL MEMBRANES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0033732869     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(99)00124-1     Document Type: Article

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