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ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2019

Binaural interference with simulated electric acoustic stimulation.

Chantal van Ginkel, René H Gifford, G Christopher Stecker

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Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chantal van GinkelDepartment of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1975 Willow Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA.
René H GiffordDepartment of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1215 21st Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA.
G Christopher SteckerDepartment of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1215 21st Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, USA.
Vanderbilt University · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Research Project: Sensory and Multisensory Contributions to AutismU54HD083211 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI DYKENS, ELISABETH MAY · 2015 to 2019
$7.1M
Cochlear Implants: Combined Electric and Binaural Acoustic StimulationR01DC009404 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GIFFORD, RENE H · 2010 to 2019
$3.4M
Temporal weighting of auditory spatial cuesR01DC011548 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI STECKER, GEORGE CHRISTOPHER · 2011 to 2015
$1.9M
Psychophysical Reweighting of Auditory Spatial CuesR01DC016643 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI STECKER, GEORGE CHRISTOPHER · 2018 to 2022
$1.6M
Developing Research Careers in the Hearing Sciences IIT35DC008763 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI LINDA J. HOOD · 2007 to 2026
$533k
NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD083211NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009404NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC011548NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC016643NIDCD NIH HHS T35 DC008763
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Preserved low-frequency acoustic hearing in cochlear implant (CI) recipients affords combined electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS) that could improve access to low-frequency acoustic binaural cues and enhance spatial hearing. Such benefits, however, could be undermined by interactions between electrical and acoustical inputs to adjacent (spectral overlap) or distant (binaural interference) cochlear places in EAS. This study simulated EAS in normal-hearing listeners, measuring interaural time difference (ITD) and interaural level difference (ILD) discrimination thresholds for a low-frequency noise (simulated acoustic target) in the presence or absence of a pulsatile high-frequency complex presented monotically or diotically (simulated unilateral or bilateral electric distractor). Unilateral distractors impaired thresholds for both cue types, suggesting influences of both binaural interference (which appeared more consistently for ITD than ILD) and physical spectral overlap (for both cue types). Reducing spectral overlap with an EAS gap between 1 and 3 kHz consistently improved binaural sensitivity. Finally, listeners displayed significantly lower thresholds with simulated bilateral versus unilateral electric stimulation. The combined effects revealed similar or better thresholds in bilateral full spectral overlap than in unilateral EAS gap conditions, suggesting that bilateral implantation with bilateral acoustic hearing preservation could allow for higher tolerance of spectral overlap in CI users and improved binaural sensitivity over unilateral EAS.

Indexed as

Auditory ThresholdSound LocalizationAcoustic StimulationAdultCochlear ImplantsCuesElectric StimulationFemaleHumansMalePerceptual Masking

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PMID31046315
PMCPMC6491346
OpenAlexW2943577759

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