Electromotile hearing: Acoustic tones mask psychophysical response to high-frequency electrical stimulation of intact guinea pig cochle

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3889-3900

  Le Prell, Colleen G ^a   Kawamoto, Kohei ^a,b   Raphael, Yehoash ^a   Dolan, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TONES; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BASILAR MEMBRANE MOTION; ELECTROMOTILE HEARING; SINUSOIDAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; AUDITION; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCIES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

MASKS;

ACOUSTIC EMISSION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BASILAR MEMBRANE; COCHLEA; CORTI ORGAN; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMOTILE HEARING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; GUINEA PIG; HAIR CELL; HEARING; IMPLANT; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; COCHLEA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GUINEA PIGS; HEARING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 33845355632     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2359238     Document Type: Article

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