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Author: Busby, Peter × Author: Clark, Graeme × End date: 1993 × Start date: 1990 × Subject: cochlear implants × Subject: otolaryngology ×

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    The effects of auditory feedback from the nucleus cochlear implant on the vowel formant frequencies produced by children and adults
    Richardson, Louise M. ; Busby, Peter A. ; Blamey, Peter J. ; Dowell, Richard C. ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1993)
    Cochlear implants provide an auditory signal with which profoundly deaf users may monitor their own speech production. The vowel production of two adults and three children who used the Nucleus multiple-electrode cochlear implant was examined to assess the effect of altered auditory feedback. Productions of words were recorded under conditions where the talkers received auditory feedback (speech processor turned on) and where no auditory feedback was provided (speech processor turned off). Data were collected over 3 days at weekly intervals. First and second formant frequencies were measured and the data were analysed to assess significant differences between auditory feedback conditions, vowel context, and data collection points. Overall, the results varied across talkers, across the data collection days, and depended on the consonant environment of the vowel. However, two effects of auditory feedback were noted. First, there was a generalized shift in first formant frequencies between the processor on and processor off conditions across three of the five subjects, but the shift differed in direction for each subject. Second, for three of the five talkers, the two front vowels /ε/ and /I/ were more neutralised in the absence of auditory feedback. However, this effect was less pronounced than that noted by previous studies.
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    Electrode position, repetition rate, and speech perception by early-and-late-deafened cochlear implant patients
    Busby, P. A. ; Tong, Y. C. ; Clark, Graeme M. ( 1993)
    Psychophysical and speech perception studies were conducted on eight patients using the 22electrode cochlear implant manufactured by Cochlear Pty. Ltd. Four early-deafened patients became deafened at 1-3 years of age and were implanted at 5-14 years of age. Four late-deafened (postlingual adult) patients became deafened at 38-47 years of age and were implanted at 42-68 years of age. Psychophysical studies measured the discrimination of trajectories with time-varying electrode positions and repetition rates. Speech perception studies measured performance using two speech coding strategies: a multi-electrode strategy which coded the first and second formant frequencies, the amplitudes of the two formants, and the fundamental frequency; and a single-electrode strategy which coded the amplitudes of the first and second formants, and the fundamental frequency. In general, the four late-deafened patients and one early-deafened patient were more successful than the other three early-deafened patients in the discrimination of electrode position trajectories and in speech perception using the multi-electrode strategy. Three of the four late-deafened patients were more successful than the early-deafened patients in the discrimination of repetition rate trajectories. Speech perception performance in the single-electrode strategy was closely related to performance in repetition rate discrimination. The improvement in speech perception performance from the single-electrode to multi-electrode strategy was consistent with successful performance in electrode discrimination.