Forward-masking patterns produced by symmetric and asymmetric pulse shapes in electric hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 326-338

  MacHerey, Olivier ^a,b   Van Wieringen, Astrid ^a   Carlyon, Robert P ^b   Dhooge, Ingeborg ^c   Wouters, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL ELECTRODES; BIPHASIC; COCHLEAR IMPLANT; COCHLEAR IMPLANT LISTENERS; ELECTRIC HEARING; FORWARD-MASKING; PULSE SHAPES;

EXPERIMENTS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 75949083747     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3257231     Document Type: Article

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