Using haptic stimulation to enhance auditory perception in hearing-impaired listeners

MD Fletcher - Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Hearing-assistive devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants,
transform the lives of hearing-impaired people. However, users often struggle to locate and …

Can haptic stimulation enhance music perception in hearing-impaired listeners?

MD Fletcher - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cochlear implants (CIs) have been remarkably successful at restoring hearing in severely-to-
profoundly hearing-impaired individuals. However, users often struggle to deconstruct …

What does music sound like for a cochlear implant user?

NT Jiam, MT Caldwell, CJ Limb - Otology & neurotology, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Cochlear implant research and product development over the past 40 years have
been heavily focused on speech comprehension with little emphasis on music listening and …

Perception and psychoacoustics of speech in cochlear implant users

D Baskent, E Gaudrain, TN Tamati… - Scientific foundations of …, 2016 - books.google.com
Cochlear implants (CIs) are prosthetic devices that restore hearing in deaf individuals via
electric stimulation of the auditory nerve through an electrode array inserted in the cochlea …

Music training for children with sensorineural hearing loss improves speech-in-noise perception

CY Lo, V Looi, WF Thompson, CM McMahon - Journal of Speech, Language …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose A growing body of evidence suggests that long-term music training provides
benefits to auditory abilities for typical-hearing adults and children. The purpose of this study …

Understanding music with cochlear implants

L Bruns, D Mürbe, A Hahne - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Direct stimulation of the auditory nerve via a Cochlear Implant (CI) enables profoundly
hearing-impaired people to perceive sounds. Many CI users find language comprehension …

Assessment and improvement of sound quality in cochlear implant users

MT Caldwell, NT Jiam, CJ Limb - Laryngoscope investigative …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Cochlear implants (CIs) have successfully provided speech perception to
individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. Recent research has focused on more …

Enhanced pitch discrimination for cochlear implant users with a new haptic neuroprosthetic

MD Fletcher, N Thini, SW Perry - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The cochlear implant (CI) is the most widely used neuroprosthesis, recovering hearing for
more than half a million severely-to-profoundly hearing-impaired people. However, CIs still …

Music enjoyment with cochlear implantation

C Prevoteau, SY Chen, AK Lalwani - Auris Nasus Larynx, 2018 - Elsevier
Since the advent of cochlear implant (CI) surgery in the 1960s, there have been remarkable
technological and surgical advances enabling excellent speech perception in quiet with …

Music listening and hearing aids: perspectives from audiologists and their patients

A Greasley, H Crook, R Fulford - International Journal of Audiology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Two studies explored hearing-aid user and audiologist experiences of hearing-
aid use and fitting for music in the UK. Design and sample: One-hundred-seventy-six …