Dual-electrode pitch discrimination with sequential interleaved stimulation by cochlear implant users |
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Authors: | Kwon Bom Jun van den Honert Chris |
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Affiliation: | Cochlear Americas, 400 Inverness Parkway, Suite 400, Englewood, Colorado 80112, USA. bjkwon@gmail.com |
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Abstract: | Cochlear implant users may perceive intermediate place-pitches between those elicited by the individual electrodes when two electrodes are stimulated simultaneously or sequentially. This study examined pitch discrimination between adjacent electrodes using sequential dual-electrode stimulation in terms of the sensitivity index, d', which was obtained by adding d's from intermediate dual-electrode stimuli. Loudness was balanced for each tested pair and the intensities were roved. Twelve ears with the Nucleus 24 or Freedom implants demonstrated a wide range of d', from 0.7 to 9.6. "Virtual channels" can be implemented through nonsimultaneous stimulation, with comparable pitch discrimination to that observed with simultaneous stimulation. |
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