Correction of the peripheral spatiotemporal response pattern: A potential new signal-processing strategy

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 848-855

  Shi, Lu Feng ^a   Carney, Laurel H ^a   Doherty, Karen A ^a,b  

^a Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Signal processing; Spatiotemporal pattern correction; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PHONEME; SOUND; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846118065     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2006/060)     Document Type: Article

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