Objective: Some cochlear implant (CI) users report having difficulty accessing indexical
information in the speech signal, presumably due to limitations in the transmission of fine …

While previous research investigating music emotion perception of cochlear implant (CI)
users observed that temporal cues informing tempo largely convey emotional arousal …

Just-Noticeable Difference (JND) is the minimal amount of signal change that the human
being is able to perceive. The human has five major sensing organs, namely, eyes, ears …

Objectives: Postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (CIs) have difficulties with
perceiving differences in speakers' voice characteristics and benefit little from voice …

Objective. Optogenetic stimulation of the auditory nerve offers the ability to overcome the
limitations of cochlear implants through spatially precise stimulation, but cannot achieve the …

Children's ability to distinguish speakers' voices continues to develop throughout childhood,
yet it remains unclear how children's sensitivity to voice cues, such as differences in …

Human listeners are assumed to apply different strategies to improve speech recognition in
background noise. Young listeners with normal hearing (NH), eg, have been shown to follow …

Portions of the results of this study were presented in “On the colour of voices: Does good
perception of vocal differences relate to better speech intelligibility in cocktail-party …

Objectives: Children with cochlear implants (CIs) vary widely in their ability to identify
emotions in speech. The causes of this variability are unknown, but this knowledge will be …

Introduction More than 5% of the world's population have a disabling hearing loss which can
be managed by hearing aids or implanted electrical devices. However, outcomes are highly …