Spatial and temporal effects of interleaved masking in cochlear implants

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 447-457

  Kwon, Bom Jun ^a   Van Den Honert, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Research and Technology Labs   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth of masking; Interleaved masking; Neural summation; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CASE REPORT; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; ELECTRODE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPEECH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HEARING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 68549134986     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-009-0168-9     Document Type: Article

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