Across-site patterns of modulation detection: Relation to speech recognition

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4030-4041

  Garadat, Soha N ^a,c   Zwolan, Teresa A ^b   Pfingst, Bryan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; MODULATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPEECH;

ADJACENT SITES; BIPHASIC PULSE; MONOPOLAR; PATTERNS OF MODULATION; PULSE TRAIN; SPEECH PROCESSORS; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DEAFNESS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHONETICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84863799796     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3701879     Document Type: Article

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