Objectives: This study measured the impact of auditory spectral resolution on listening effort.
Systematic degradation in spectral resolution was hypothesized to elicit corresponding …

Objective: The primary objective of this study was to assess the effect of electric and acoustic
overlap for speech understanding in typical listening conditions using semidiffuse noise …

Speech intelligibility in multitalker settings is challenging for most cochlear implant (CI)
users. One possibility for this limitation is the suboptimal representation of vocal cues in …

Objective: To determine whether bilateral loudness balancing during mapping of bilateral
cochlear implants (CIs) produces fused, punctate, and centered auditory images that …

Background: CIs use FATs to represent the tonotopic organization of a normal cochlea.
Current CI fitting methods typically use a standard FAT for all patients regardless of …

Objectives: Cochlear implant (CI) recipients are at a severe disadvantage compared with
normal-hearing listeners in distinguishing consonants that differ by place of articulation …

The channel vocoder has become a useful tool to understand the impact of specific forms of
auditory degradation—particularly the spectral and temporal degradation that reflect …

The vocal tract length (VTL) of a speaker is an important voice cue that aids speech
intelligibility in multi-talker situations. However, cochlear implant (CI) users demonstrate …

Objective: To improve the estimation of the perceived pitch in a single-sided deaf cochlear
implant (CI) listener by using accurate 3-dimensional (3D) image analysis of the cochlear …

Acoustic models have been used in numerous studies over the past thirty years to simulate
the percepts elicited by auditory neural prostheses. In these acoustic models, incoming …