Mandarin tone recognition in cochlear-implant subjects

Hearing Research

Volumn 197, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 87-95

  Wei, Chao Gang ^a   Cao, Keli ^a   Zeng, Fan Gang ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel; Cochlear implant; Electrode; Rate discrimination; Speech recognition; Tone recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MANDARIN; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 3142578213     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2004.06.002     Document Type: Article

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