Neural ITD coding with bilateral cochlear implants: Effect of binaurally coherent jitter

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 714-728

  Hancock, Kenneth E ^a,b   Chung, Yoojin ^a,b   Delgutte, Bertrand ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing; Congenital deafness; Inferior colliculus; Interaural time difference; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INTERAURAL TIME DISCRIMINATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84865635367     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00269.2012     Document Type: Article

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