More than 60,000 people worldwide use cochlear implants as a means to restore functional
hearing. Although individual performance variability is still high, an average implant user …

Cochlear implants are highly successful neural prostheses for persons with severe or
profound hearing loss who gain little benefit from hearing aid amplification. Although …

Cochlear implants provide users with limited spectral and temporal information. In this study,
the amount of spectral and temporal information was systematically varied through …

This study examined Mandarin tone identification by 36 English-speaking musicians and 36
nonmusicians and musical note identification by the musicians. In the Mandarin task …

Objective: Mandarin is a lexical tone language in which four tones are crucial for
determining lexical meanings. Acquisition of such a tone system may be challenging to …

This study evaluates the relative contributions of envelope and fine structure cues in both
temporal and spectral domains to Mandarin tone recognition in quiet and in noise. Four sets …

Previous work [Nelson, Jin, Carney, and Nelson (2003), J. Acoust. Soc. Am 113, 961–968]
suggested that cochlear implant users do not benefit from masking release when listening in …

Objective: Taking advantage of the flexibility in the number of stimulating electrodes and the
stimulation rate in a modern cochlear implant, the present study evaluated relative …

The relative importance of temporal envelope and fine structure in speech and music
perception was investigated by Smith et al.[Nature (London) 416, 87–90 (2002)] using …

Functional imaging studies of speech perception in the human brain have identified a key
role for auditory association areas in the temporal lobes (bilateral superior temporal gyri and …