Publications by authors named "Ryan C Stafford"
Objectives: There is recent interest in focused stimulation of the cochlea via modalities such as tripolar electrical and infrared neural stimulation to improve speech in noise comprehension and music perception. The purpose of this work was to use vocoder-based simulations to investigate speech recognition for broad stimulation (standard monopolar paradigm) versus more focused stimulation under a variety of signal-to-noise ratios, dynamic ranges, and numbers of discriminable loudness steps.
Design: Vocoder simulations were used to assess the intelligibility of sentences, consonants, and vowels that were noise vocoded and presented to 7 normal-hearing listeners for identification.