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Title
Enhancing the perception of speech indexical properties of Cochlear implants through sensory substitution
Description
Through decades of clinical progress, cochlear implants have brought the world of speech and language to thousands of profoundly deaf patients. However, the technology has many possible areas for improvement, including providing information of non-linguistic cues, also called indexical properties of speech. The field of sensory substitution, providing information relating one sense to another, offers a potential avenue to further assist those with cochlear implants, in addition to the promise they hold for those without existing aids. A user study with a vibrotactile device is evaluated to exhibit the effectiveness of this approach in an auditory gender discrimination task. Additionally, preliminary computational work is included that demonstrates advantages and limitations encountered when expanding the complexity of future implementations.
Date Created
2015
Contributors
- Butts, Austin McRae (Author)
- Helms Tillery, Stephen (Thesis advisor)
- Berisha, Visar (Committee member)
- Buneo, Christopher (Committee member)
- McDaniel, Troy (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Extent
viii, 130 pages : illustrations (some color)
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.34826
Statement of Responsibility
by Austin McRae Butts
Description Source
Viewed on September 11, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2015
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-114)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Bioengineering
System Created
- 2015-08-17 11:52:33
System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 2 years 8 months ago
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