Improved fundamental frequency coding in cochlear implant signal processing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2260-2271

  Milczynski, Matthias ^a   Wouters, Jan ^a   Van Wieringen, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CODING STRATEGIES; ELECTRICAL STIMULUS; FILTER-BANK; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; MUSIC PERCEPTIONS; PITCH PERCEPTIONS; PITCH RANKINGS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; TEMPORAL PROCESSING;

DIGITAL FILTERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 64649090330     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3085642     Document Type: Article

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