Fig. 5.

a) Illustration of the spectral blurring imposed by Goehring et al. (2020; see text) and for stimulation of channel 5. Condition M1 is the standard condition where a single electrode is stimulated in monopolar mode. Conditions M2, M3, M4, and M6 represent increasing amounts of blurring, whereby multiple adjacent electrodes are stimulated simultaneously. Parts b) and d) show the SRTs obtained when blurring all 15 or 5 evenly spaced electrodes, respectively. Part c) illustrates the point that a narror excitation produces more excitation at its peak than is the case for a broader but equally loud excitation pattern