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Spatial Release From Masking in 2-Year-Olds With Normal Hearing and With Bilateral Cochlear Implants.
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- Central auditory and tinnitus consequences of pediatric chronic otitis media with effusion.Hearing research · 2025Article
- The neuronal and synaptic representations of spatial release from masking in the rat auditory cortex.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Children's use of spatial and visual cues for release from perceptual masking.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Article
- Spatial Release From Masking in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Recipients With Single-Sided Deafness.American journal of audiology · 2021Article
- Interrater Reliability for a Two-Interval, Observer-Based Procedure for Measuring Hearing in Young Children.American journal of audiology · 2020Article
- Sound Localization in Toddlers with Normal Hearing and with Bilateral Cochlear Implants Revealed Through a Novel "Reaching for Sound" Task.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2020Article
- Behavioral Assessment of Hearing in 2- to 7-Year-Old Children: Evaluation of a Two-Interval, Observer-Based Procedure Using Conditioned Play-Based Responses.American journal of audiology · 2019Article
- The Role of Interaural Differences, Head Shadow, and Binaural Redundancy in Binaural Intelligibility Benefits Among School-Aged Children.Trends in hearingArticle
- Spatial Release From Masking With Bilateral Bone Conduction Stimulation at Mastoid for Normal Hearing Subjects.Trends in hearingArticle
- Novel Approaches to Measure Spatial Release From Masking in Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants.Ear and hearingArticle
- Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants Show Emerging Spatial Hearing of Stationary and Moving Sound.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
This study evaluated spatial release from masking (SRM) in 2- to 3-year-old children who are deaf and were implanted with bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs), and in age-matched normal-hearing (NH) toddlers. Here, we examined whether early activation of bilateral hearing has the potential to promote SRM that is similar to age-matched NH children. Listeners were 13 NH toddlers and 13 toddlers with BiCIs, ages 27 to 36 months. Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) were measured for target speech in front (0°) and for competitors that were either Colocated in front (0°) or Separated toward the right (+90°). SRM was computed as the difference between SRTs in the front versus in the asymmetrical condition. Results show that SRTs were higher in the BiCI than NH group in all conditions. Both groups had higher SRTs in the Colocated and Separated conditions compared with Quiet, indicating masking. SRM was significant only in the NH group. In the BiCI group, the group effect of SRM was not significant, likely limited by the small sample size; however, all but two children had SRM values within the NH range. This work shows that to some extent, the ability to use spatial cues for source segregation develops by age 2 to 3 in NH children and is attainable in most of the children in the BiCI group. There is potential for the paradigm used here to be used in clinical settings to evaluate outcomes of bilateral hearing in very young children.
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