Frequency transposition around dead regions simulated with a noiseband vocoder

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1156-1163

  Başkent, Deniz ^a,b   Shannon, Robert V ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY TRANSPOSITION; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; NOISEBAND VOCODER; SPIRAL GANGLIA;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDITION; CELLS; HEARING AIDS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEUROLOGY;

VOCODERS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPIRAL GANGLION;

EID: 31744451826     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2151825     Document Type: Article

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