When listening with a cochlear implant through one ear and acoustically through the other,
binaural benefits and spatial hearing abilities are generally poorer than in other bilaterally …

In asymmetric treatment of hearing loss, processing latencies of the modalities typically
differ. This often alters the reference interaural time difference (ITD)(ie, the ITD at 0° azimuth) …

A cochlear implant is a neuroprosthetic device that can restore speech perception for people
with severe to profound hearing loss. Because of recent evolutions, a growing number of …

Objectives: Masked speech recognition is typically assessed as though the target and
background talkers are all directly facing the listener. However, background speech in …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to characterize spatial hearing abilities of children
with longstanding unilateral hearing loss (UHL). UHL was expected to negatively impact …

Portions of this work were presented in “The effect of spectral resolution on dichotic listening
performance and effort” at the Association for Research and Otolaryngology Midwinter …

Objectives: To investigate the mechanisms behind binaural and spatial effects in speech
understanding for bimodal cochlear implant listeners. In particular, to test our hypothesis that …

Speech understanding in noise is poorer in bilateral cochlear-implant (BICI) users compared
to normal-hearing counterparts. Independent automatic gain controls (AGCs) may contribute …

The ability to attend to target speech in background noise is an important skill, particularly for
children who spend many hours in noisy environments. Intelligibility improves as a result of …

Bilateral cochlear-implant (BICI) listeners obtain less spatial release from masking (SRM;
speech-recognition improvement for spatially separated vs co-located conditions) than …