Spectral peak resolution and speech recognition in quiet: Normal hearing, hearing impaired, and cochlear implant listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1111-1121

  Henry, Belinda A ^a   Turner, Christopher W ^b   Behrens, Amy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT (CI) LISTENERS; HEARING IMPAIRED (HI) LISTENERS; NORMAL HEARING (NH) LISTENERS; PEAK RESOLUTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 23744464444     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1944567     Document Type: Article

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