The study tests the hypothesis that vibrotactile stimulation can affect timbre perception. A
multidimensional scaling experiment was conducted. Twenty listeners with normal hearing …

Abstract The House Ear Institute (HEI) had a long and distinguished history of auditory
implant innovation and development. Early clinical innovations include being one of the first …

Cochlear implant (CI) users find it extremely difficult to discriminate between talkers, which
may partially explain why they struggle to understand speech in a multi-talker environment …

Objectives: Although it has been shown previously that changes in temporal coding produce
changes in pitch in all cochlear regions, research has suggested that temporal coding might …

A musical interval is the difference in pitch between two sounds. The way that musical
intervals are used in melodies relative to the tonal center of a key can strongly affect the …

Various neural health estimates have been shown to indicate the density of spiral ganglion
neurons in animal and modeling studies of cochlear implants (CIs). However, when applied …

Long (31.5 mm) electrode arrays are inserted deeper into the cochlea than the typical 1.25
turn insertion. With these electrode arrays, the apical electrodes are closer to (and possibly …

Despite their mutually exclusive definitions, pitch and timbre perception interact with each
other in normal-hearing (NH) listeners. Cochlear implant (CI) users have worse than normal …

Objective: Cochlear implant patients have difficulty in noisy environments, in part, because
of channel interaction. Interleaving the signal by sending every other channel to the opposite …

Cochlear implant (CI) users, even with substantial speech comprehension, generally have
poor sensitivity to pitch information (or fundamental frequency, F0). This insensitivity is often …