Current-level discrimination and spectral profile analysis in multi-channel electrical stimulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3142-3157

  Goupell, Matthew J ^a   Laback, Bernhard ^a   Majdak, Piotr ^a   Baumgartner, Wolf Dieter ^b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CI LISTENERS; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; NOTCH DEPTHS; PEAK HEIGHTS; SPECTRAL PROFILES;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; LOCATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EAR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; HEARING AIDS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 56749132443     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2981638     Document Type: Article

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