Localization cues with bilateral cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1030-1042

  Seeber, Bernhard U ^a,b   Fastl, Hugo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

HORIZONTAL LOCALIZATION; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCE (ITD);

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CASE REPORT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; EAR; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 38949144724     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2821965     Document Type: Article

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