Detection of pulse trains in the electrically stimulated cochlea: Effects of cochlear health

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3954-3968

  Pfingst, Bryan E ^a   Colesa, Deborah J ^a   Hembrador, Sheena ^a   Kang, Stephen Y ^a   Middlebrooks, John C ^a,b   Raphael, Yehoash ^a   Su, Gina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL SIGNAL; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTRICAL STIMULI; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GANGLION CELLS; HAIR CELLS; HIGH PULSE RATE; IMPLANTED ELECTRODES; MULTIPULSES; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; PULSE RATE; PULSE TRAIN; STIMULATION SITES;

CELLS; ELECTRODES; NUMBER THEORY; TISSUE;

CYTOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; GUINEA PIG; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MALE; NOISE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSORY RECEPTOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; GUINEA PIGS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; MALE; NOISE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84857503025     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3651820     Document Type: Article

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