Effects of cochlear implant processing and fundamental frequency on the intelligibility of competing sentences

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1069-1078

  Stickney, Ginger S ^a   Assmann, Peter F ^b   Chang, Janice ^c   Zeng, Fan Gang ^d  

^a Hearing Instrument Consultants   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

COCHLEAR IMPLANT; NORMAL-HEARING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL FINE STRUCTURE;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NOISE; PHONETICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 34547638977     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2750159     Document Type: Article

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