Effects of a cochlear implant simulation on immediate memory in normal-hearing adults

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 551-558

  Burkholder, Rose A ^a   Pisoni, David B ^a,b   Svirsky, Mario A ^b,c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic simulations; Auditory memory; Cochlear implants; Deafness; Digit span

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 27744538349     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020500243893     Document Type: Article

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