Binaural hearing with electrical stimulation

A Kan, RY Litovsky - Hearing Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Bilateral cochlear implantation is becoming a standard of care in many clinics. While much
benefit has been shown through bilateral implantation, patients who have bilateral cochlear …

Perception and coding of interaural time differences with bilateral cochlear implants

B Laback, K Egger, P Majdak - Hearing Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Bilateral cochlear implantation is increasingly becoming the standard in the clinical
treatment of bilateral deafness. The main motivation is to provide users of bilateral cochlear …

Human interaural time difference thresholds for sine tones: The high-frequency limit

A Brughera, L Dunai, WM Hartmann - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The smallest detectable interaural time difference (ITD) for sine tones was measured for four
human listeners to determine the dependence on tone frequency. At low frequencies, 250 …

Interaural time-delay sensitivity in bilateral cochlear implant users: effects of pulse rate, modulation rate, and place of stimulation

RJM Van Hoesel, GL Jones, RY Litovsky - Journal of the Association for …, 2009 - Springer
Electrical interaural time delay (ITD) discrimination was measured using 300-ms bursts
applied to binaural pitch matched electrodes at basal, mid, and apical locations in each ear …

Contrasting benefits from contralateral implants and hearing aids in cochlear implant users

RJM Van Hoesel - Hearing research, 2012 - Elsevier
In recent years a substantial number of studies have reported results from cochlear implant
users who increasingly are being fitted with a contralateral hearing aid or second implant …

Perception of binaural cues develops in children who are deaf through bilateral cochlear implantation

KA Gordon, MR Deighton, P Abbasalipour, BC Papsin - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
There are significant challenges to restoring binaural hearing to children who have been
deaf from an early age. The uncoordinated and poor temporal information available from …

Binaural sensitivity in children who use bilateral cochlear implants

E Ehlers, MJ Goupell, Y Zheng, SP Godar… - The Journal of the …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Children who are deaf and receive bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) perform better on
spatial hearing tasks using bilateral rather than unilateral inputs; however, they …

Neural ITD coding with bilateral cochlear implants: effect of binaurally coherent jitter

KE Hancock, Y Chung… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
Poor sensitivity to the interaural time difference (ITD) constrains the ability of human bilateral
cochlear implant users to listen in everyday noisy acoustic environments. ITD sensitivity to …

Cortical representation of interaural time difference is impaired by deafness in development: evidence from children with early long-term access to sound through …

V Easwar, H Yamazaki, M Deighton… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Accurate use of interaural time differences (ITDs) for spatial hearing may require access to
bilateral auditory input during sensitive periods in human development. Providing bilateral …

Coding of electric pulse trains presented through cochlear implants in the auditory midbrain of awake rabbit: comparison with anesthetized preparations

Y Chung, KE Hancock, SI Nam… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Cochlear implant (CI) listeners show limits at high frequencies in tasks involving temporal
processing such as rate pitch and interaural time difference discrimination. Similar limits …