Speech perception in simulated electric hearing exploits information-bearing acoustic change

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Stilp, Christian E ^a   Goupell, Matthew J ^b   Kluender, Keith R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC HEARING; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; NORMAL-HEARING LISTENERS; PARAMETERIZED; SENTENCE INTELLIGIBILITY; SPECTRAL ENTROPY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

AUDITION;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; NOISE; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRECTION OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84873363083     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4776773     Document Type: Article

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