Reduced acoustic and electric integration in concurrent-vowel recognition

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 1419
• Main Authors: Yang, Hsin-I, Zeng, Fan-Gang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 11.03.2013; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/378/2619/1387; 631/378/2619/1592; 639/166/985; 692/308/409; Acoustics; Cochlea; Deafness; Ear; Efficiency; Hearing loss; Humanities and Social Sciences; Integration; multidisciplinary; Prosthetics; Science; Speech

The present study used concurrent-vowel recognition to measure integration efficiency of combined acoustic and electric stimulation in eight actual cochlear-implant subjects who had normal or residual low-frequency acoustic hearing contralaterally. Although these subjects could recognize single vowe...