Contrasting benefits from contralateral implants and hearing aids in cochlear implant users

Hearing Research

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 100-113

  Van Hoesel, Richard J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING AID; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING AIDS; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REHABILITATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84861839351     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: 18785891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2011.11.014     Document Type: Review

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