Sensitivity to isolated and concurrent intensity and fundamental frequency increments by cochlear implant users under natural listening conditions

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2276-2287

  Rogers, Cheryl F ^a   Healy, Eric W ^a   Montgomery, Allen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT (CI); NATURAL LISTENING CONDITIONS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

ADULT; AGED; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND; SPEECH; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645330136     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2167150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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