Localization ability with bimodal hearing aids and bilateral cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1698-1709

  Seeber, Bernhard U ^a,c   Baumann, Uwe ^b   Fastl, Hugo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; EARPHONES; PATIENT TREATMENT; SPEECH;

BIMODAL AIDS; HEARING LOSS; IMPLANTS; LASER-POINTERS;

HEARING AIDS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION;

ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 4444249874     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1776192     Document Type: Article

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