The study presents the application of a purely conductance-based stochastic nerve fibre model to human auditory nerve fibres within finite element volume conduction models of a semi-generic head and user-specific cochleae. ...

Recordings of elephant vocalisations can be used to determine the size and composition of the herd, the sexual state, as well as the emotional condition of an elephant. Manual analysis of recordings (by listening to these ...

OBJECTIVE: The development of a valid and reliable Afrikaans test of sentence recognition thresholds in noise. DESIGN: A collection of sentences was developed, rated for naturalness and grammatical complexity, and ...

The resistivity of bone is the most variable of all the tissues in the human body, ranging from 312 U cm to 84,745 U cm. Volume conduction models of cochlear implants have generally used a resistivity value of 641 U cm ...

Feature information transmission analysis (FITA) estimates information transmitted by an acoustic feature by assigning tokens to categories according to the feature under investigation and comparing within-category to ...

Synthesis (carrier) signals in acoustic models embody assumptions about perception of auditory electric stimulation. This study compared speech intelligibility of consonants and vowels processed through a set of nine ...

Stimuli used in timbre perception studies must be controlled carefully in order to yield meaningful results. During psychoacoustic testing of individual timbre properties, (1) it must be ensured that timbre properties ...

Tests of sentence recognition in noise constitute an essential tool for the assessment of auditory abilities that are representative of everyday listening experiences. A number of recent articles have reported on the ...

The present study explored the acoustic characteristics of prosodic cues that indicate a speaker’s reluctance when giving permission or agreement using a single word (“okay”). Eight speakers (four male, four female) ...