Clear speech perception in acoustic and electric hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 2374-2383

  Liu, Sheng ^a,b   Del Rio, Elsa ^b   Bradlow, Ann R ^c   Zeng, Fan Gang ^b  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; ELECTRIC HEARING;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

NOISE; SIMULATION;

EID: 6344256248     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1787528     Document Type: Article

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