Factors affecting the use of noise-band vocoders as acoustic models for pitch perception in cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 491-506

  Laneau, Johan ^a   Moonen, Marc ^b   Wouters, Jan ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODELS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS (CI); NOISE-BAND VOCODERS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ELECTRODES; FREQUENCIES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOISE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 30844470447     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2133391     Document Type: Article

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