High-rate conditioning pulse trains in cochlear implants: Dynamic range measures with sinusoidal stimuli

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 3327-3342

  Hong, Robert S ^a   Rubinstein, Jay T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC SIGNAL SYSTEMS; ELECTRODES; RESONANCE;

HIGH RATE PULSE TRAIN; STOCHASTIC RESONANCE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HUMAN; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0348108268     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1623785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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