ArticleFrontiers in neurology2020
Spatial Hearing by Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users With Temporal Fine-Structure Processing.
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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
- A deep learning framework for understanding cochlear implants.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Pulse timing dominates binaural hearing with cochlear implants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Magnified interaural level differences enhance binaural unmasking in bilateral cochlear implant users.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
- Audiovisual Training in Virtual Reality Improves Auditory Spatial Adaptation in Unilateral Hearing Loss Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Towards personalized and optimized fitting of cochlear implants.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Towards a Consensus on an ICF-Based Classification System for Horizontal Sound-Source Localization.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Benefits of triple acoustic beamforming during speech-on-speech masking and sound localization for bilateral cochlear-implant users.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- Review of Binaural Processing With Asymmetrical Hearing Outcomes in Patients With Bilateral Cochlear Implants.Trends in hearingReview
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Abstract
Several studies have demonstrated the advantages of the bilateral vs. unilateral cochlear implantation in listeners with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss. However, it remains unclear to what extent bilaterally implanted listeners have access to binaural cues, e.g., accurate processing of interaural timing differences (ITDs) for low-frequency sounds (<1.5 kHz) and interaural level differences (ILDs) for high frequencies (>3 kHz). We tested 25 adult listeners, bilaterally implanted with MED-EL cochlear implant (CI) devices, with and without fine-structure (FS) temporal processing as encoding strategy in the low-frequency channels. In order to assess whether the ability to process binaural cues was affected by fine-structure processing, we performed psychophysical ILD and ITD sensitivity measurements and free-field sound localization experiments. We compared the results of the bilaterally implanted listeners with different numbers of FS channels. All CI listeners demonstrated good sensitivity to ILDs, but relatively poor to ITD cues. Although there was a large variability in performance, some bilateral CI users showed remarkably good localization skills. The FS coding strategy for bilateral CI hearing did not improve fine-structure ITD processing for spatial hearing on a group level. However, some CI listeners were able to exploit weakly informative temporal cues to improve their low-frequency spatial perception.
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