Comparison of bimodal and bilateral cochlear implant users on speech recognition with competing talker, music perception, affective prosody discrimination, and talker identification

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-30

  Cullington, Helen E ^a   Zeng, Fan Gang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MUSIC; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 78651408979     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181edfbd2     Document Type: Article

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