Effect of speech degradation on top-down repair: Phonemic restoration with simulations of cochlear implants and combined electric-acoustic stimulation

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 683-692

  Başkent, Deniz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory scene analysis; Cochlear implants; Hearing impairment; Phonemic restoration; Speech perception; Top down and bottom up processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHONETICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870461150     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: 14387573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-012-0334-3     Document Type: Article

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