Extending the limits of place and temporal pitch perception in cochlear implant users

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 233-251

  Macherey, Olivier ^a,b   Deeks, John M ^a   Carlyon, Robert P ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE ET D ACOUSTIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Place pitch; Temporal pitch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BIPOLAR PSEUDOMONOPHASIC PULSE; BIPOLAR SYMMETRIC PULSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; TEMPORAL PITCH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGED; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79958110881     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-010-0248-x     Document Type: Article

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