Streaming of vowel sequences based on fundamental frequency in a cochlear-implant simulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 3076-3087

  Gaudrain, Etienne ^a,d   Grimault, Nicolas ^a   Healy, Eric W ^b,e   Béra, Jean Christophe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; NOISY ENVIRONMENTS; SUBSEQUENT ANALYSES; TEMPORAL PERIODICITY CUES;

AUDITION; EXPERIMENTS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPEECH PROCESSING; VOCODERS;

SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; VOWEL;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; HEARING; HUMANS; PERIODICITY; PHONETICS; PITCH PERCEPTION; REFERENCE VALUES; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 56749164031     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2988289     Document Type: Article

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