ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2018
Mixed stimulation rates to improve sensitivity of interaural timing differences in bilateral cochlear implant listeners.
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- Binaural sensitivity and processing of envelope-based interaural difference cues by bilateral cochlear implant users with perilingual and postlingual onset of deafness.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026Article
- Best cochlear locations for delivering interaural timing cues in electric hearing.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Localization performance of cochlear implant users with a real-time bilaterally-synchronized sound coding strategy that provides explicit interaural timing cues with mixed rates of stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- A Mixed-Rate Strategy on a Bilaterally-Synchronized Cochlear Implant Processor Offering the Opportunity to Provide Both Speech Understanding and Interaural Time Difference Cues.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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- Pitch discrimination in electric hearing with inconsistent and consistent amplitude-modulation and inter-pulse rate cues.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Lateralization of binaural envelope cues measured with a mobile cochlear-implant research processora).The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Interaural time difference sensitivity under binaural cochlear implant stimulation persists at high pulse rates up to 900 pps.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Lateralization of interaural time differences with mixed rates of stimulation in bilateral cochlear implant listeners.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2023Article
- Microsecond interaural time difference discrimination restored by cochlear implants after neonatal deafness.eLife · 2021Article
- The Temporal Limits Encoder as a Sound Coding Strategy for Bilateral Cochlear Implants.IEEE/ACM transactions on audio, speech, and language processing · 2021Article
- Evaluating the Impact of Age, Acoustic Exposure, and Electrical Stimulation on Binaural Sensitivity in Adult Bilateral Cochlear Implant Patients.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Temporal-pitch sensitivity in electric hearing with amplitude modulation and inserted pulses with short inter-pulse intervals.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020Article
- Improving Interaural Time Difference Sensitivity Using Short Inter-pulse Intervals with Amplitude-Modulated Pulse Trains in Bilateral Cochlear Implants.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2020Article
- Auditory motion tracking ability of adults with normal hearing and with bilateral cochlear implants.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2019Article
- Effects of Monaural Temporal Electrode Asynchrony and Channel Interactions in Bilateral and Unilateral Cochlear-Implant Stimulation.Trends in hearingArticle
- Limitations on Temporal Processing by Cochlear Implant Users: A Compilation of Viewpoints.Trends in hearingReview
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Abstract
Normal hearing listeners extract small interaural time differences (ITDs) and interaural level differences (ILDs) to locate sounds and segregate targets from noise. Bilateral cochlear implant listeners show poor sensitivity to ITDs when using clinical processors. This is because common clinical stimulation approaches use high rates [∼1000 pulses per-second (pps)] for each electrode in order to provide good speech representation, but sensitivity to ITDs is best at low rates of stimulation (∼100-300 pps). Mixing rates of stimulation across the array is a potential solution. Here, ITD sensitivity for a number of mixed-rate configurations that were designed to preserve speech envelope cues using high-rate stimulation and spatial hearing using low rate stimulation was examined. Results showed that ITD sensitivity in mixed-rate configurations when only one low rate electrode was included generally yielded ITD thresholds comparable to a configuration with low rates only. Low rate stimulation at basal or middle regions on the electrode array yielded the best sensitivity to ITDs. This work provides critical evidence that supports the use of mixed-rate strategies for improving ITD sensitivity in bilateral cochlear implant users.
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