Auditory attention and spatial unmasking in children with cochlear implants

SM Misurelli, MJ Goupell, EA Burg… - Trends in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The ability to attend to target speech in background noise is an important skill, particularly for
children who spend many hours in noisy environments. Intelligibility improves as a result of …

Cochlear implant magnet dislocation after MRI: surgical management and outcome

M Leinung, A Loth, M Gröger, I Burck, T Vogl… - European Archives of …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose An increasing number of cochlear implant (CI) users is examined by magnetic
resonance imaging which may cause the displacement of the implant magnet. This …

Acoustic hearing can interfere with single-sided deafness cochlear-implant speech perception

JGW Bernstein, OA Stakhovskaya, KK Jensen… - Ear and …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Cochlear implants (CIs) restore some spatial advantages for speech
understanding in noise to individuals with single-sided deafness (SSD). In addition to a …

The temporal limits encoder as a sound coding strategy for bilateral cochlear implants

A Kan, Q Meng - IEEE/ACM transactions on audio, speech, and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The difference in binaural benefit between bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users and normal
hearing (NH) listeners has typically been attributed to CI sound coding strategies not …

Sequential bilateral cochlear implantation with prolonged time intervals

Z Zhang, C Wei, Y Zhang, Z Zeng, K Cao, Y Liu - Journal of Speech …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose The aim of the study was to assess whether sequential cochlear implantation (CI)
with a prolonged interimplant interval (M= 15.2 years) between the first and second CIs …

Spatial release from informational and energetic masking in bimodal and bilateral cochlear implant users

K D'Onofrio, V Richards, R Gifford - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose Spatially separating speech and background noise improves speech
understanding in normal-hearing listeners, an effect referred to as spatial release from …

[PDF][PDF] Perceptual Integration of Speech Information Across Ears With Bilateral Cochlear Implants and Simulations in Normal-Hearing

SR Anderson, FJ Gallun, RY Litovsky - bhsl.waisman.wisc.edu
• Bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) generally improve speech-innoise understanding
compared to one CI alone. However, the amount of benefit attained varies across patients [1 …