Tone discrimination and speech perception benefit in Mandarin-speaking children fit with HiRes fidelity 120 sound processing

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 750-757

  Chang, Yu Tuan ^a   Yang, Hui Mei ^b   Lin, Yi Hui ^b   Liu, Shu Hui ^b   Wu, Jiunn Liang ^b,c  

^a TAINAN MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; HiResolution strategy; Mandarin Chinese; Speech recognition; Tone perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONSONANT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MUSIC; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 69749124084     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181b286b2     Document Type: Article

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