Psychophysically based site selection coupled with dichotic stimulation improves speech recognition in noise with bilateral cochlear implants

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 994-1008

  Zhou, Ning ^a   Pfingst, Bryan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL INTERACTIONS; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; FREQUENCY RESOLUTIONS; MODULATION DETECTION; MULTI-CHANNEL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL MEASURES; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SPEECH PROCESSORS; STIMULATION SITES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SITE SELECTION;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

AGED; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 84865093177     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4730907     Document Type: Article

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