Lateralization discrimination of interaural time delays in four-pulse sequences in electric and acoustic hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2182-2191

  Laback, Bernhard ^a   Majdak, Piotr ^a   Baumgartner, Wolf Dieter ^b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEARING AIDS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME DELAY;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT (CI); ELECTRIC HEARING; INTERAURAL TIME DELAYS (ITD); MIDDLE PULSES;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34047245250     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2642280     Document Type: Article

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