The use of frequency compression by cochlear implant recipients with postoperative acoustic hearing

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 380-389

  McDermott, Hugh ^a,b   Henshall, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bimodal hearing; Nonlinear frequency compression; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORD RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEAFNESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 77956601641     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.21.6.3     Document Type: Article

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