The benefit of bilateral versus unilateral cochlear implantation to speech intelligibility in noise

Ear and Hearing

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 673-682

  Culling, John F ^a   Jelfs, Sam ^b   Talbert, Alice ^a   Grange, Jacques A ^a   Backhouse, Steven S ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c PRINCESS OF WALES HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PILOT STUDY; REVIEW; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PILOT PROJECTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST; WALES;

EID: 84871656076     PISSN: 01960202     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3182587356     Document Type: Article

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