Effects of simulated cochlear-implant processing on speech reception in fluctuating maskers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 446-454

  Qin, Michael K ^a   Oxenham, Andrew J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

INTELLIGIBILITY;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

ACOUSTICS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 0037828299     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1579009     Document Type: Article

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