Perception of Mandarin Chinese with cochlear implants using enhanced temporal pitch cues

Hearing Research

Volumn 285, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 1-12

  Milczynski, Matthias ^a   Chang, Janice Erica ^b   Wouters, Jan ^a   van Wieringen, Astrid ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LOUDNESS; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858280387     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2012.02.006     Document Type: Article

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