Objectives: When listening to two competing speakers, normal-hearing (NH) listeners can
take advantage of voice differences between the speakers. Users of cochlear implants (CIs) …

Cochlear implants (CIs) have been remarkably successful at restoring speech perception for
severely to profoundly deaf individuals. Despite their success, several limitations remain …

Conclusion: The human frequency-to-place map may be modified by experience, even in
adult listeners. However, such plasticity has limitations. Knowledge of the extent and the …

Spectral smearing causes, at least partially, that cochlear implant (CI) users require a higher
signal-to-noise ratio to obtain the same speech intelligibility as normal hearing listeners. A …

Suboptimal interfaces between cochlear implant (CI) electrodes and auditory neurons result
in a loss or distortion of spectral information in specific frequency regions, which likely …

Purpose Improved speech recognition in binaurally combined acoustic–electric stimulation
(otherwise known as bimodal hearing) could arise when listeners integrate speech cues …

Even though speech signals trigger coding in the cochlea to convey speech information to
the central auditory structures, little is known about the neural mechanisms involved in such …

Cochlear implants are neuroprosthetic devices that provide hearing to deaf patients,
although outcomes are highly variable even with prolonged training and use. The central …

A potential bottleneck to improving speech perception performance in cochlear implant (CI)
users is that some of their electrodes may poorly encode speech information. Several …

The multidimensional phoneme identification model is applied to consonant confusion
matrices obtained from 28 postlingually deafened cochlear implant users. This model …