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Original Article

A psychophysical forward masking comparison of longitudinal spread of neural excitation in the Contour™ and straight Nucleus® electrode arrays

Comparación psicofísica con enmascaramiento anterógrado de la propagación longitudinal de la excitación neural con hilos de electrodos Contour ™y Nucleus® recto

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Pages 559-566 | Received 16 Dec 2004, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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