Advanced beamformers for cochlear implant users: Acute measurement of speech perception in challenging listening conditions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Buechner, Andreas ^a   Dyballa, Karl Heinz ^a   Hehrmann, Phillipp ^b   Fredelake, Stefan ^b   Lenarz, Thomas ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Advanced Bionics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BINAURAL BEAMFORMING TECHNOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GERMANY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MONAURAL BEAMFORMING TECHNOLOGY; NOISE REDUCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84899683043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095542     Document Type: Article

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