External degradations in incoming speech reduce understanding, and hearing impairment
further compounds the problem. While cognitive mechanisms alleviate some of the …

In favorable listening conditions, cochlear-implant (CI) users can reach high speech
recognition scores with as little as seven active electrodes. Here, we hypothesized that even …

Purpose Fitting a cochlear implant (CI) for optimal speech perception does not necessarily
optimize listening effort. This study aimed to show that listening effort may change between …

Background: Bottom-up spectro-temporal processing, assessed using a Spectral-Temporally
Modulated Ripple Test (SMRT), is associated with CI speech recognition outcomes …

Background Postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant (CI) users routinely display large
individual differences in the ability to recognize and understand speech, especially in …

Top-down restoration mechanisms can enhance perception of degraded speech. Even in
normal hearing, however, a large variability has been observed in how effectively …

The brain, using expectations, linguistic knowledge, and context, can perceptually restore
inaudible portions of speech. Such top-down repair is thought to enhance speech …

In noisy listening conditions, intelligibility of degraded speech can be enhanced by top-down
restoration. Cochlear implant (CI) users have difficulty understanding speech in noisy …

Greater informational masking is observed when the target and masker speech are more
perceptually similar. Fundamental frequency (f0) contour, or the dynamic movement of f0, is …

Compared with normal-hearing listeners, cochlear implant (CI) users display a loss of
intelligibility of speech interrupted by silence or noise, possibly due to reduced ability to …