Effect of frequency boundary assignment on speech recognition with the nucleus 24 ACE speech coding strategy

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 700-717

  Fourakis, Marios S ^a   Hawks, John W ^b   Holden, Laura K ^c   Skinner, Margaret W ^c   Holden, Timothy A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Frequency boundaries; Maps; Questionnaires; Speech perception tests

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 41449119275     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.18.8.7     Document Type: Article

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