A study of hearing aid gain functions based on a nonlinear nonlocal feedforward cochlea model

Hearing Research

Volumn 215, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 84-96

  Kim, Yongsam ^a   Xin, Jack ^a,b   Qi, Yingyong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive amplification; Cochlea model; Intelligibility; Model based amplification; Noises

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; HAIR CELL; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND;

BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; HAIR CELLS, OUTER; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646252246     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2006.03.013     Document Type: Article

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