Investigating the effects of stimulus duration and context on pitch perception by cochlear implant users

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 318-326

  Stohl, Joshua S ^a   Throckmorton, Chandra S ^a   Collins, Leslie M ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR IMPLANT; COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; FINE STRUCTURES; MULTI RATE; MUSIC IDENTIFICATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; PITCH RANKING; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; PULSE RATE; SOUND PROCESSING; SPECTRAL REPRESENTATIONS; TIME VARYING; TONAL LANGUAGES;

COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 68149091219     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3133246     Document Type: Article

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