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Speech perception test scores in percent correct (initial and latest testing) from a 15-year ABI user. SERT = Sound Effects Recognition Test; MTS Word = Monosyllable Trochee Spondee Test; NUCHIPS = Northwestern University Children's Perception of Speech Word Test; Consonants and Vowels = Iowa Consonant and Vowel Tests; CUNY Sents = City University of New York Sentence Test; S+V = sound plus vision mode; S = sound only mode; CID Sents = Central Institute for the Deaf Sentence Test.
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With experience, the patient's speech perception scores ultimately improved as much as 50% over initial device activation, including some sound-only (open-set) sentence recognition ability (Fig. 1).
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Speech perception test scores in percent correct (initial and latest testing) from a 15-year ABI user. SERT = Sound Effects Recognition Test; MTS Word = Monosyllable Trochee Spondee Test; NUCHIPS = Northwestern University Children's Perception of Speech Word Test; Consonants and Vowels = Iowa Consonant and Vowel Tests; CUNY Sents = City University of New York Sentence Test; S+V = sound plus vision mode; S = sound only mode; CID Sents = Central Institute for the Deaf Sentence Test.
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With experience, the patient's speech perception scores ultimately improved as much as 50% over initial device activation, including some sound-only (open-set) sentence recognition ability (Fig. 1).
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Section through the posteroventral cochlear nucleus on the right (implanted) side. Arrows indicate cochlear nuclei. Hematoxylin and eosin, 40x. eb = electrode array bed.
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Figure 2 shows the stimulated right side.
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