Binaural masking level differences in actual and simulated bilateral cochlear implant listeners

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1479-1490

  Lu, Thomas ^a   Litovsky, Ruth ^b   Zeng, Fan Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; BINAURAL CUES; BINAURAL MASKING-LEVEL DIFFERENCES; BINAURAL PROCESSING; COCHLEAR IMPLANT LISTENERS; ELECTRODE EFFECTS; INDEPENDENT SPEECH; INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; MULTIPLE PAIRS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; TEMPORAL ENVELOPES; TIME-DIFFERENCES;

DIGITAL FILTERS; ELECTRODES; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; CUES; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950411945     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3290994     Document Type: Article

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