Pulse-rate discrimination by cochlear-implant and normal-hearing listeners with and without binaural cues

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2276-2286

  Carlyon, Robert P ^a   Long, Christopher J ^a   Deeks, John M ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HEARING AIDS; HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

ACOUSTIC PULSE TRAINS; BINAURAL CUES; COCHLEAR IMPLANT (CI); ELECTRIC PULSE TRAINS; PULSE RATE DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PULSE RATE; PULSE WAVE;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 41949083626     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2874796     Document Type: Article

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