The effect of different cochlear implant microphones on acoustic hearing individuals' binaural benefits for speech perception in noise

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 468-484

  Aronoff, Justin M ^a   Freed, Daniel J ^b   Fisher, Laurel M ^a   Pal, Ivan ^c   Soli, Sigfrid D ^a  

^a HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b EarLens Corp   (United States)

^c Compreval Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959819790     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31820dd3f0     Document Type: Article

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