The representation of noise vocoded speech in the auditory nerve of the chinchilla: Physiological correlates of the perception of spectrally reduced speech

Hearing Research

Volumn 213, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 130-144

  Loebach, Jeremy L ^a,b   Wickesberg, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve; Noise vocoded speech; Spectrally reduced speech; Speech

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NERVE; HISTOGRAM; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NERVE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NOISE; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 33644825687     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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