Spatial speech-in-noise performance in bimodal and single-sided deaf cochlear implant users

B Williges, T Wesarg, L Jung, LI Geven… - Trends in …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This study compared spatial speech-in-noise performance in two cochlear implant (CI)
patient groups: bimodal listeners, who use a hearing aid contralaterally to support their …

The benefits of bimodal aiding on extended dimensions of speech perception: Intelligibility, listening effort, and sound quality

EMJ Devocht, AML Janssen, J Chalupper… - Trends in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The benefits of combining a cochlear implant (CI) and a hearing aid (HA) in opposite ears on
speech perception were examined in 15 adult unilateral CI recipients who regularly use a …

[HTML][HTML] Consistent and chronic cochlear implant use partially reverses cortical effects of single sided deafness in children

HJ Lee, D Smieja, MJ Polonenko, SL Cushing… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Potentially neuroprotective effects of CI use were studied in 22 children with single sided
deafness (SSD). Auditory-evoked EEG confirmed strengthened representation of the intact …

The effect of interaural mismatches on contralateral unmasking with single-sided vocoders

JM Wess, DS Brungart, JGW Bernstein - Ear and Hearing, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Cochlear-implant (CI) users with single-sided deafness (SSD)—that is, one
normal-hearing (NH) ear and one CI ear—can obtain some unmasking benefits when a …

Bilateral Cochlear Implant Processing of coding strategies with CCi-MOBILE, an open-source research platform

R Ghosh, JHL Hansen - IEEE/ACM transactions on audio …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While speech understanding for cochlear implant (CI) users in quiet is relatively effective,
listeners experience difficulty in identification of speaker and sound location. To assist for …

Matching automatic gain control across devices in bimodal cochlear implant users

LCE Veugen, J Chalupper, AFM Snik… - Ear and …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to improve bimodal benefit in listeners using a
cochlear implant (CI) and a hearing aid (HA) in contralateral ears, by matching the time …

Improving the intelligibility of speech for simulated electric and acoustic stimulation using fully convolutional neural networks

NYH Wang, HLS Wang, TW Wang… - … on Neural Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combined electric and acoustic stimulation (EAS) has demonstrated better speech
recognition than conventional cochlear implant (CI) and yielded satisfactory performance …

[HTML][HTML] Voltage readout from a piezoelectric intracochlear acoustic transducer implanted in a living guinea pig

C Zhao, KE Knisely, DJ Colesa, BE Pfingst… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The ability to measure the voltage readout from a sensor implanted inside the living cochlea
enables continuous monitoring of intracochlear acoustic pressure locally, which could …

Improved interaural timing of acoustic nerve stimulation affects sound localization in single-sided deaf cochlear implant users

J Seebacher, A Franke-Trieger, V Weichbold… - Hearing Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The main impairment associated with single-sided deafness (SSD) is the loss of binaural
hearing. Currently, the most effective treatment to compensate for this deficit is to supply …

Measuring and modeling cue dependent spatial release from masking in the presence of typical delays in the treatment of hearing loss

J Angermeier, W Hemmert, S Zirn - Trends in Hearing, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In asymmetric treatment of hearing loss, processing latencies of the modalities typically
differ. This often alters the reference interaural time difference (ITD)(ie, the ITD at 0° azimuth) …