In normal hearing (NH), the perception of the gender of a speaker is strongly affected by two
anatomically related vocal characteristics: the fundamental frequency (F0), related to vocal …

Perception of voice characteristics allows normal hearing listeners to identify the gender of a
speaker, and to better segregate speakers from each other in cocktail party situations. This …

Children who are deaf and receive bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) perform better on
spatial hearing tasks using bilateral rather than unilateral inputs; however, they …

The information contained in a sensory signal plays a critical role in determining what neural
processes are engaged. Here we used interleaved silent steady-state (ISSS) functional …

Cochlear implant (CI) users suffer from elevated speech-reception thresholds and may rely
on lip reading. Traditional measures of spatial release from masking quantify speech …

Noise-and sine-carrier vocoders are often used to acoustically simulate the information
transmitted by a cochlear implant (CI). However, sine-waves fail to mimic the broad spread …

Speech understanding was tested for seven listeners using 12-electrode Med-El cochlear
implants (CIs) and six normal-hearing listeners using a CI simulation. Eighteen different …

Several electrophysiological and psychophysical studies have shown that the spatial
excitation pattern produced by bipolar stimulation of a cochlear implant (CI) can have a dual …

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 …

Background: Patients with single-sided deafness (SSD) and a CI form a unique population,
since they can compare the sound of their CI with simulations of the CI sound played to their …