Comodulation masking release in speech identification with real and simulated cochlear-implant hearing

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1315-1324

  Ihlefeld, Antje ^a   Shinn Cunningham, Barbara G ^b   Carlyon, Robert P ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR IMPLANT LISTENERS; COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE; NARROW BANDS; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; SPECTRAL REGION; SPEECH IDENTIFICATION; SPEECH MATERIALS; SPEECH SIGNALS; SQUARE-WAVE; TARGET SIGNALS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; EXPERIMENTS;

AUDITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; HEARING; HUMAN; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857410915     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3676701     Document Type: Article

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