Trial reportEuropean archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery2023
Training spatial hearing in unilateral cochlear implant users through reaching to sounds in virtual reality.
Trial report in European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04183348 (Evaluation of the Effect of a Visio-Hearing Training Protocol on Spatial Hearing in Subjects With Hearing Loss), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers.
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Evaluation of the Effect of a Visio-Hearing Training Protocol on Spatial Hearing in Subjects With Hearing Loss
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- The contribution of audition and proprioception in unisensory and multisensory target reaching.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Action toward sound sources enhances auditory spatial confidence: on the metacognitive consequences of reaching to sounds.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Spatial hearing training in virtual reality with simulated asymmetric hearing loss.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Capturing Visual Attention With Perturbed Auditory Spatial Cues.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
background and purposeUse of unilateral cochlear implant (UCI) is associated with limited spatial hearing skills. Evidence that training these abilities in UCI user is possible remains limited. In this study, we assessed whether a Spatial training based on hand-reaching to sounds performed in virtual reality improves spatial hearing abilities in UCI users
methodsUsing a crossover randomized clinical trial, we compared the effects of a Spatial training protocol with those of a Non-Spatial control training. We tested 17 UCI users in a head-pointing to sound task and in an audio-visual attention orienting task, before and after each training. <br>Study is recorded in clinicaltrials.gov (NCT04183348).
resultsDuring the Spatial VR training, sound localization errors in azimuth decreased. Moreover, when comparing head-pointing to sounds before vs. after training, localization errors decreased after the Spatial more than the control training. No training effects emerged in the audio-visual attention orienting task.
conclusionsOur results showed that sound localization in UCI users improves during a Spatial training, with benefits that extend also to a non-trained sound localization task (generalization). These findings have potentials for novel rehabilitation procedures in clinical contexts.
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