Using Zebra-speech to study sequential and simultaneous speech segregation in a cochlear-implant simulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 502-518

  Gaudrain, Etienne ^a,b   Carlyon, Robert P ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS; ENERGETIC MASKING; FORWARD-MASKING; KEY FACTORS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SEGREGATION MECHANISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH SEGREGATION; TARGET SPEECH;

EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872091232     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4770243     Document Type: Article

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