Effect of stimulus level and place of stimulation on temporal pitch perception by cochlear implant users

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2997-3008

  Carlyon, Robert P ^a   Lynch, Catherine ^b,c   Deeks, John M ^a  

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

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL ELECTRODES; BI-POLAR MODE; COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; EFFECT OF PULSE; LEVEL DIFFERENCE; PITCH PERCEPTION; PULSE TRAIN; RESPONSE BIAS; SIGNAL LEVEL; STANDARD RATES; STIMULUS LEVELS;

EXPERIMENTS; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS; SPEECH PROCESSING; STANDARDS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HEARING; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 77956249466     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3372711     Document Type: Article

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