ArticleEuropean 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 Surgery2025
Low-frequency pitch sensitivity and speech perception performance in adult cochlear implant users fitted with fine structure strategies.
Article 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, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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purposeCochlear implant (CI) users may perceive pitch changes via repetition rate (RP) and place-of-stimulation (PP) coding mechanisms. This study investigated whether CI users fitted with fine structure (FS) strategies can discriminate low-frequency (LF) pitch changes via RP and whether RP performers show better speech recognition than PP performers.
methodsThirty postlingually deafened adult CI users (15 unilateral, 15 bilateral) participated in this study. LF pitch discrimination linked to temporal fine structure (TFS) sensitivity was assessed with the Disharmonic Intonation test (A§E psychoacoustic test suite), while speech perception was evaluated with phonetically balanced words and everyday sentences (both in quiet and noise), and the Italian Matrix test (in adaptive mode).
resultsJust noticeable differences (JNDs) in RP performers were significantly better compared to PP JNDs (p < 0.001, r = 0.80). No significant differences were found between unilateral and bilateral CI users for LF pitch perception (p > 0.05). Within-group comparisons (better ear versus bilateral listening) revealed that better ear JNDs were not significantly different from the bilateral performance (p > 0.05), whereas significant bilateral benefit was observed for word recognition score (WRS) + 10 (p = 0.016, r = 1.00), WRS + 5 (p = 0.021, r = 1.00), and Matrix performance (p = 0.033, r = 0.80). Speech recognition in noise was significantly better in RP performers compared to PP performers across multiple tests, including WRS + 10 (p = 0.002, r = 0.90), WRS + 5 (p = 0.001, r = 0.90), and the Matrix test (p = 0.03, r = 0.60).
conclusionThese findings highlight the advantages of FS coding strategies in improving TFS sensitivity and speech perception in complex listening environments.
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