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Research Article

The choice of stimulation strategy affects the ability to detect pure tone inter-aural time differences in children with early bilateral cochlear implantation

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Pages 554-561 | Received 03 Nov 2017, Accepted 26 Dec 2017, Published online: 21 Jan 2018

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