The contribution of apical stimulation to Mandarin speech perception in users of the MED-EL COMBI 40 cochlear implant

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-58

  Qi, Beier ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Krenmayr, Andreas ^b   Liu, Sha ^a   Gong, Shusheng ^a   Liu, Haihong ^a   Zhang, Ning ^a   Han, Demin ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

ElectroD.E.; insertion depth; tonal language

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TONAL LANGUAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650298151     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489.2010.506652     Document Type: Article

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