The upper limit of temporal pitch for cochlear-implant listeners: Stimulus duration, conditioner pulses, and the number of electrodes stimulated

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1469-1478

  Carlyon, Robert P ^a   Deeks, John M ^a   McKay, Colette M ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY NERVES; ELECTRICAL PULSE; RANKING PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL PATTERN; UPPER LIMITS;

EXPERIMENTS; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONDITIONING; ELECTRODE; HEARING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 77950401729     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3291981     Document Type: Article

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