tonal languages and cochlear implants

... “Pitch scaling and speech understanding by patients who use the Ineraid cochlear implant,” Ear and Hearing, vol 11, no 4, pp 310–315, 1990 [18] S Fujita and J Ito, “Ability of nucleus cochlear implantees ... adult cochlear implant recipients and normalhearing adults,” Cochlear Implants International, vol 3, no 1, pp 29–53, 2002 [31] V Looi, H McDermott, C McKay, and L Hickson, “Music perception of cochlear ... Ear and Hearing, vol 29, no 3, pp 421– 434, 2008 [32] C Olszewski, K Gfeller, R Froman, J Stordahl, and B Tomblin, “Familiar melody recognition by children and adults using cochlear implants and...

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... COCHLEAR IMPLANTS This page intentionally left blank COCHLEAR IMPLANTS Fundamentals and Applications Graeme Clark The University of Melbourne and The Bionic Ear Institute, ... Cochlear implants : fundamentals and applications / Graeme Clark p cm — (Modern acoustics and signal processing) Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-387-95583-6 (alk paper) Cochlear ... Sonya, Cecily, Roslyn, Merran, and Jonathan; their spouses Ian, Peter, and Marissa; and our grandchildren Elise, Monty, Daniel, Noah, and Rebekah for their encouragement and enriching our lives I...

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... single-channel cochlear implants The Hearing Journal 38: 17–20 Eisen, M D Submitted History of the cochlear implant I: Djourno, Eyries, and the first ` cochlear (?) implant Otology and Neurotology ... body The malleus has a head, neck, and three processes—the manubrium or handle, and the anterior and lateral processes The manubrium passes downward and backward and is attached along its length ... of the height and width and cross-sectional area of the cat and human cochleae (Hatsushika et al, Dimensions of the scala tympani in the human and cat with reference to cochlear implants Annals...

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... 177–183 Luxford, W M and W F House 1985 Cochlear implants in children: medical and surgical considerations Ear and Hearing 6(3 suppl): 20S–23S Majno, G and I Joris 1996 Cells, tissues and disease: principles ... Laryngology and Otology 97: 333–341 Shepherd, R K., B K.-H G Franz and G M Clark 1990 The biocompatibility and safety of cochlear prostheses In: Clark, G M., Y C Tong and J F Patrick, eds Cochlear ... ganglion cells and nerve fibers and variable changes in the cochlear duct including hydrops Malformations such as a rudimentary organ of Corti and underdeveloped stria vascularis and tectorial...

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... with bilateral cochlear implants (see Chapter 6) Understanding the coding of binaural excitation is increasingly important with the introduction of bilateral cochlear implants, and bimodal speech ... was found in the deep and intermediate layers of the SC in the guinea pig (Palmer and King 1982; King and Palmer 1983) Auditory Physiology 229 and the cat (Middlebrooks and Knudsen 1984) This ... of temporal patterns and order, change in duration of sound, and change in the spectra of complex sounds (Neff et al 1975) Coding and Perception Pitch and Loudness Frequency and intensity coding...

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... /F2-MSP system were 20% and 16%, and for the SMSP-DSP 43% and 39% The open-set CNC word scores (scored as words) were 9% and 1% for the F0 /F1 /F2-MSP system, and 21% and 16% for SMSP-DSP The ... compared with SPEAK and CIS The rate and number of channels were optimized for ACE and CIS The rates were most frequently 720 pulses /s and 1800 pulses /s for ACE, and 900 pulses /s and 1800 pulses ... Pyman and R L Webb 1996 Multicenter evaluations of speech perception in adults and children with the Nucleus (Cochlear) 22-channel cochlear implant In: Portmann, M., ed Transplants and implants...

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... released and then further advanced around the cochlea The array was refined through the CRC for Cochlear Implant Speech and Hearing Research (1992–1999) and then the CRC for Cochlear Implant and Hearing ... electrodes that are band-like and 0.5 mm in width with an interelectrode distance of 0.7 mm Nucleus 22 and 24 Standard Straight Array The University of Melbourne’s free-fitting banded array was developed ... ACE, and CIS strategies, and the Clarion S and Combi-40/40‫ ם‬devices for CIS With the Nucleus 24 the maximum overall stimulus rate was 14,400 pulses/s at 25 ls/phase, and minimum ls gap and 12...

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... hearing aids and cochlear implants: issues of efficacy and assessment Scandinavian Audiology Supplementum 46: 17–25 Boothroyd, A 1998 Evaluating the efficacy of hearing aids and cochlear implants in ... Institute and was developed as the Contour array by Cochlear Limited and the Cooperative Research Centers (CRC) for Cochlear Implant Speech and Hearing Research and subsequently Cochlear Implant and ... prospective, randomised study of cochlear implants New England Journal of Medicine 328: 233–282 Consensus 1995 National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference Cochlear implants in adults and children...

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... making NRT measurements Cochlear AG, Basel, Switzerland Lesner, S A., S A Sandridge and P B Kricos 1987 Training and influences on visual consonant and sentence recognition Ear and Hearing 8: 283–287 ... with cochlear implants Volta Review 96: 169–180 S N L 704 11 Rehabilitation and Habilitation Osberger, M J., A M Robbins, S L Todd, A I Riley, K I Kirk and A E Carney 1996 Cochlear implants and ... children with cochlear implants In: Clark, G M., ed Cochlear implants XVI World Congress of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Bologna, Monduzzi Editore: 297–303 Dowell, R C and R S C Cowan...

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... cognitive, motor, and sensory; and (3) phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics The language of children with a cochlear implant is related to their speech perception Cochlear implants provide ... cochlear implants: issues of efficacy and assessment Scandinavian Audiology Supplementum 46: 17–25 754 12 Results Boothroyd, A 1998 Evaluating the efficacy of hearing aids and cochlear implants ... A., A E Geers and J S Moog 1991 Practical implications of cochlear implants in children Ear and Hearing 12(suppl 4): 81S–89S Boothroyd, A., L Hanin and O Eran 1996 Speech perception and production...

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... takes new tuples and a current state and output new tuples and a modified state and pass, prop, keep are three behavior functions that take punctuation marks and state as input and returns additional ... etc.) always return a sequence of length one and they are all nonmonotonic, and therefore blocking Continuous count and sum are monotonic and nonblocking, and thus suitable for continuous queries ... equivalent defines the two queries pUq and coalscp, the first on P and Q and the second on P only We will refer to them as the coalesce query and the until query, and observe that they are monotonic...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... closely related languages Consider, for example, Figure Related languages like Catalan and Spanish or Danish and Norwegian have common roots and, therefore, use similar concepts and express them ... between closely related languages in the domain of movie subtitles Number of sentences (#sents) and number of words (#words) in thousands (k) and millions (M) (averages of source and target language) ... (Wu and Wang, 2007; Bertoldi et al., 2008) Cascaded translation via pivot languages are discussed by (Utiyama and Isahara, 2007) and are frequently used by various researchers (de Gispert and...

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... computation and the associated languages, from the most elementary to the most general: finite automata and regular languages; context-free languages and pushdown automata; and Turing machines and recursively ... few essential topics from Chapter and a substantial portion of the material on finite automata and regular languages, context-free languages and pushdown automata, and Turing machines A course on ... x, and you can see that there is no value of x that makes x < true and x < false When x = 0, both x < and x < are true; when x = 1, x < is false and x < is true; and when x = 2, both x < and...

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... Music and Musicians (Grove, London, 1995) E Terhardt, Akustische Kommunikation (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998) G Clark, Cochlear Implants: Fundamentals and Applications Modern Acoustics and Signal ... mapping band-pass filters out frequencies lower than 440 Hz (A4) and higher than 5009 Hz Thus fundamental frequencies and partials in most of the fourth piano octave (261 to 493 Hz) and below ... low frequencies and retain some of the time resolution at higher frequencies, frequency subband decomposition [19-21] is used to generate the FTM Frequency resolution and subband decomposition...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... high-pass filter whose bandwidth extends up to the Nyquist frequency The bandwidth covered by the filters will be referred to as subbands or frequency bands In HiRes, each frequency band is associated ... to each analysis band and its associated center frequency The Hilbert envelope is computed for each analysis band The Hilbert envelope for the analysis band z is denoted by HEz and is computed ... into cochlear location For each analysis band z two weights are calculated wz1 and wz2 that will be applied to the two electrodes forming that analysis band This can be achieved using the cochlear...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... critical band number [12, 13] Because the bandwidths of the frequency bands used in the filter bank in the ACE and PACE schemes are approximately equal to the critical bands, the frequency band number ... described Section gives the results of the speech understanding tests with cochlear implant users and finally, in Sections and 5, a discussion and the conclusions are presented respectively 2.1 METHODS ... detection A(z) M bands + A(z) − LT (z) Max LT (z) Psychoacoustic model N selected bands zi , A(zi ) Selected band Figure 7: Selection algorithm: the audio samples are the input and the N bands selected...

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... conventions are useful and standard ¬ stands for “not” or “the negation of” ∀ stands for “for all” ∃ stands for “there exists” ∋ stands for “such that” s.t stands for “such that” ⇒ stands for “implies” ... these sets, and we have no intention of doing so One can start from scratch, and define the natural numbers, and then the integers and the rationals etc This is a very interesting process, and one ... implies that a = c and b = d (Hint - consider separately the cases of a = b and a = b.) Show that for any sets A, B and C that (i) A ∼ A, (ii) A ∼ B implies B ∼ A, and (iii) A ∼ B and B ∼ C implies...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:20

... Declaration in single-Command | begin Command end | begin Command end Command ::= single-Command Command ::= single-Command | Command ; single-Command | Command ; single-Command 40 Syntax of Mini ... single-Command | if Expression then single-Command else single-Command else single-Command | while Expression single-Command | while Expression single-Command | let Declaration in single-Command | ... programming languages and understanding of techniques for describing and compiling programming languages Studieordning.doc What should you expect to get out of this course Ideas, principles and techniques...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 22:24

... giáo trình Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation) Chương Bài tập chương 9.1( giáo trình Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation) Qua phần cung cấp cho thông ... Chương I,Chương II Chương III thực tảng lý thuyết sách " Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation " John C Martin tham khảo theo lý thuyết tài liệu "Lý thuyết tính toán" PGS ... 17 Tiểu luận môn Lý Thuyết Tính Toán Tài liệu tham khảo [1] John C Martin, Introduction to languages and the theory of coputation, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, 1997 [2] Phan Huy Khánh, Giáo...

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... University of languages and international studies Department of post-graduate studies Lý tú Synonyms and their challenges for first-year students at the English department, university of languages and ... takes sky and heaven as an example At first, these two words denoted both the physical firmament and the spiritual realm of God and the angels Then sky came to denote just the physical, and heaven ... more or less similar, but not identical in meaning Some examples are mist and fog, stream and brook, dive and plunge, ask and beg, etc Partial synonyms are synonyms which fail to satisfy all the...

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