The use of suprathreshold stochastic resonance in cochlear implant coding

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5110, Issue , 2003, Pages 92-101

  Allingham, D ^a   Stocks, N G ^a   Morse, R P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cochlear implants; Information theory; Neural populations; Noise; Suprathreshold stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY; RESONANCE; SIGNAL ENCODING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT CODING; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; NEURAL POPULATIONS; SIGNAL TRANSMISSION; SUPRATHRESHOLD STOCHASTIC RESONANCE;

AUDITION;

EID: 0041324731     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.490198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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