The right information may matter more than frequency-place alignment: Simulations of frequency-aligned and upward shifting cochlear implant processors for a shallow electrode array insertion

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-152

  Faulkner, Andrew ^a   Rosen, Stuart ^a   Norman, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BASILAR MEMBRANE; CASE REPORT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHALLOW ELECTRODE ARRAY; SIMULATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VOWEL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEARING LOSS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33746482065     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aud.0000202357.40662.85     Document Type: Article

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