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Masking thresholds for NH listeners using acoustic CI simulation. Format is the same as Fig. 1. Labels along the x-axis include NV-noise-excited vocoder, GVb—Gaussian-enveloped tone vocoder (basal), GVm (middle), and GVa (apical). See Sec. 2 for details on the Gaussian-enveloped tone vocoder.
