The effect of reducing the number of electrodes on spatial hearing tasks for bilateral cochlear implant recipients

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 110-120

  Perreau, Ann ^a   Tyler, Richard S ^a   Witt, Shelley A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral cochlear implants; Electrode number; Localization; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPECTROSCOPY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOFTWARE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 77749320891     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.21.2.5     Document Type: Article

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