A glimpsing account for the benefit of simulated combined acoustic and electric hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2287-2294

  Li, Ning ^a   Loizou, Philipos C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COMBINED ACOUSTIC AND ELECTRIC HEARING; LOW FREQUENCIES; LOW FREQUENCY ENVELOPES; NORMAL HEARING LISTENERS;

ELECTROACOUSTIC TESTING;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 41849142302     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2839013     Document Type: Article

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