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Modulation detection interference in cochlear implant subjects

 

作者: Louise M. Richardson,   Peter A. Busby,   Graeme M. Clark,  

 

期刊: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  (AIP Available online 1998)
卷期: Volume 104, issue 1  

页码: 442-452

 

ISSN:0001-4966

 

年代: 1998

 

DOI:10.1121/1.423248

 

出版商: Acoustical Society of America

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

The aim of this study was to determine whether detection thresholds for amplitude modulated signals on a single electrode were influenced by a masking modulation on a second electrode in cochlear implant users. Data were collected from four post-linguistically deafened subjects using the Cochlear Limited prosthesis. Investigated were the effects of the spatial separation between test and masker electrodes, 0 to 5 electrodes (0 to 3.75 mm), and the amount of masking modulation: 24%, 48%, 72%, and 96% above detection thresholds. Initially, modulation detection thresholds for stimulation on a single electrode without masking modulation were obtained for a set of six electrodes in the middle of the array. Modulation detection thresholds on a fixed test electrode were then obtained with unmodulated and modulated masking on a second electrode, which was one of the six electrodes in the initial study. In both studies, thresholds were measured for modulated pulse duration at the modulation frequencies of 10–200 Hz. In the first study, the shape of the detection thresholds as a function of modulation frequency, the temporal modulation transfer function, generally resembled a low-pass filter for two subjects. For the other two subjects, the functions were relatively flat across modulation frequencies. In the second study, unmodulated masking resulted in a small elevation in detection thresholds across electrodes. Modulation detection interference (MDI), the difference between thresholds for the modulated maskers and the unmodulated masker, was greater for larger amounts of masking modulation than for smaller amounts of masking modulation. For three of the four subjects, MDI was higher for smaller spatial separations between the two electrodes than for larger spatial separations suggesting that a portion of MDI may be due to overlap of neural excitation distributions produced by stimulation on two electrodes in close proximity on the array.

 

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