Effects of stimulation rates on Cantonese lexical tone perception by cochlear implant users in Hong Kong

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 533-538

  Au, D K K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Lexical tones; Speech perception; Stimulation rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CANTONESE; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHINA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0344082115     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2273.2003.00747.x     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. ALLUM D.J. (1996) Basics of cochlear implant systems. In Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation in Children and Adults, ALLUM, D.J. (ed.), pp. 1-21. Singular Publishing Group, San Diego
2. WILSON B.S., FINLEY C.C., LAWSON D.T. et al. (1991) Better speech recognition with cochlear implants. Nature 352, 236-238
3. ZIERHOFER C.M., HOCHMAIR I.J. & HOCHMAIR E.S. (1997) The advanced Combi 40+ cochlear implant. Am. J. Otol. 18, S37-S38
4. Fu Q.J. & SHANNON R.V. (1999) Effect of stimulation rate on phoneme recognition by Nucleus-22 cochlear implant listeners. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 1889-1900
5. KIEFER J., VON ILBERG C., RUPPRECHT V. et al. (2000) Optimised speech understanding with the continuous interleaved sampling speech-coding strategy in patients with cochlear implants: effect of variations in stimulation rate and number of channels. Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol. 109, 1009-1020
6. KIEFER J., MULLER J., PFENNIGDORFF T. et al. (1996) Speech understanding in quiet and in noise with the CIS speech-coding strategy (MED-EL Combi-40) compared to the multipeak and spectral peak strategies (Nucleus). ORL 58, 127-135
7. DORMAN M.F. & LOIZOU P.C. (1997) Changes in speech intelligibility as a function of time and signal processing strategy for an Ineraid patient fitted with CIS processors. Ear Hear. 18, 147-155
8. GEURTS L. & WOUTERS J. (1999) Enhancing the speech envelope of continuous interleaved sampling processors for cochlear implants. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 2476-2484
9. DORMAN M.F. & LOIZOU P.C. (1997) Speech intelligibility as a function of the number of channels of stimulation for normal-hearing listeners and patients with cochlear implants. Am. J. Otol. 18. S113-S114
10. WILSON B.S., LAWSON D.T., ZERBI M. et al. (1995) New processing strategies in cochlear implantation. Am. J. Otol. 16, 669-675
11. WILSON B., LAWSON D. & ZERBI M. (1995) Advances in coding strategies for cochlear implants. Adv. Otolaryngol. Head. Neck. Surg. 9, 105-129
12. VANDALI A.E., WHITFORD L.A., PLANT K.L. et al. (2000) Speech perception as a function of electrical stimulation rate: using the Nucleus 24 cochlear implant system. Ear Hear. 21, 608-624
13. AU D.K., HUI Y. & WONG Y.K. (2000) Comparison of the results of two different implant systems using continuous interleaved sampler speech processing strategy. Adv. Otorhinolaryngol. 57, 430-434
14. CATFORD J.C. (1988) A Practical Introduction to Phonetics. Clarendon Press, Oxford
15. KILENY P.R., ZIMMERMAN-PHILPS S., ZWOLAN T.A. et al. (1992) Effects of channel number and place of stimulation on performance with the cochlear corporation multichannel implant. Am. J. Otol. 13, 117-123
16. ARIYASU L., GALEY F.R., HILSINGER R. et al. (1989) Computer-generated three-dimensional reconstruction of the cochlea. Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg. 100, 87-91
17. KAWANO A., SELDON H.L. & CLARK G.M. (1996) Computer-aided three-dimensional reconstruction in human cochlear maps: measurement of the lengths of organ of Corti, outer wall, inner wall and Rosenthal's canal. Ann. Otol. Rhinol. Laryngol. 105, 701-709
18. Hong Kong Hospital Authority (2000) Hong Kong Speech Perception Test Manual. Hospital Authority, Hong Kong
19. DAWSON P.W., SHOK M. & CLARK G.M. (1997) The effect of loudness imbalance between electrodes in cochlear implant users. Ear Hear. 18, 156-165
20. WILSON B.S., FINLEY C.C., LAWSON D.T. et al. (1997) Temporal representations with cochlear implants. Am. J. Otol. 18, S30-S34
21. SHANNON R.V., ZENG F.G., WYGONSKI J. et al. (1995) Speech recognition with primarily temporal cues. Science 270, 303-304
22. FU Q.J., ZENG F.G., SHANNON R.V. et al. (1998) Importance of tonal envelope cues in Chinese speech recognition. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104, 505-510