Speech perception, localization, and lateralization with bilateral cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1617-1630

  Van Hoesel, Richard J M ^a   Tyler, Richard S ^b  

^a University of Melbourne   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); LOUDSPEAKERS; RECEPTION QUALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

SOUND;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERACUSIS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0037334941     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1539520     Document Type: Article

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