Enhancement of temporal cues to pitch in cochlear implants: Effects on pitch ranking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 392-402

  Vandali, Andrew E ^a   Van Hoesel, Richard J M ^a  

^a Hearing CRC   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; CODING STRATEGY; DIFFERENCE LIMEN; EXPERIMENTAL STRATEGY; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; PITCH RANKING; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; SPEECH INFORMATION; TEMPORAL CUES;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MUSIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CUES; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MUSIC; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84863652827     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4718452     Document Type: Article

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