Noise improves modulation detection by cochlear implant listeners at moderate carrier levels

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 993-1002

  Chatterjee, Monita ^a,b   Oba, Sandra I ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MODULATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESONANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CARRIER LEVELS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; MODULATION DETECTION; MODULATION SENSITIVITY;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 23744459792     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1929258     Document Type: Conference Paper

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