Binaural unmasking with multiple adjacent masking electrodes in bilateral cochlear implant users

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3934-3945

  Lu, Thomas ^a   Litovsky, Ruth ^b   Zeng, Fan Gang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY NERVES; BINAURAL HEARING; BINAURAL MASKING-LEVEL DIFFERENCES; CHANNEL INTERACTIONS; COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; ELECTRICAL FIELD; ELECTRODE PAIRS; MASKING NOISE; NARROW-BAND NOISE; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; REALISTIC STIMULATION; SINGLE ELECTRODES; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AUDITION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PROSTHESIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959393518     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3570948     Document Type: Article

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