Listening effort is not the same as speech intelligibility score

MB Winn, KH Teece - Trends in Hearing, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Listening effort is a valuable and important notion to measure because it is among the
primary complaints of people with hearing loss. It is tempting and intuitive to accept speech …

The enigma of poor performance by adults with cochlear implants

AC Moberly, C Bates, MS Harris… - Otology & …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Considerable unexplained variability and large individual differences exist in
speech recognition outcomes for postlingually deaf adults who use cochlear implants (CIs) …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive factors contribute to speech perception in cochlear-implant users and age-matched normal-hearing listeners under vocoded conditions

ER O'Neill, HA Kreft, AJ Oxenham - … Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This study examined the contribution of perceptual and cognitive factors to speech-
perception abilities in cochlear-implant (CI) users. Thirty CI users were tested on word …

[PDF][PDF] The musician effect: does it persist under degraded pitch conditions of cochlear implant simulations?

CD Fuller, JJ Galvin III, B Maat, RH Free… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Cochlear implants (CIs) are auditory prostheses that restore hearing via electrical
stimulation of the auditory nerve. Compared to normal acoustic hearing, sounds transmitted …

Distinct neural encoding of glimpsed and masked speech in multitalker situations

VS Raghavan, J O'Sullivan, S Bickel, AD Mehta… - Plos …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Humans can easily tune in to one talker in a multitalker environment while still picking up
bits of background speech; however, it remains unclear how we perceive speech that is …

Perception and psychoacoustics of speech in cochlear implant users

D Baskent, E Gaudrain, TN Tamati… - Scientific foundations of …, 2016 - books.google.com
Cochlear implants (CIs) are prosthetic devices that restore hearing in deaf individuals via
electric stimulation of the auditory nerve through an electrode array inserted in the cochlea …

Bottom-up signal quality impacts the role of top-down cognitive-linguistic processing during speech recognition by adults with cochlear implants

AC Moberly, JH Lewis, KJ Vasil, C Ray… - Otology & …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background: Bottom-up spectro-temporal processing, assessed using a Spectral-Temporally
Modulated Ripple Test (SMRT), is associated with CI speech recognition outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] High-and low-performing adult cochlear implant users on high-variability sentence recognition: Differences in auditory spectral resolution and neurocognitive …

TN Tamati, C Ray, KJ Vasil, DB Pisoni… - Journal of the …, 2020 - thieme-connect.com
Background Postlingually deafened adult cochlear implant (CI) users routinely display large
individual differences in the ability to recognize and understand speech, especially in …

Cognitive compensation of speech perception with hearing impairment, cochlear implants, and aging: How and to what degree can it be achieved?

D Başkent, J Clarke, C Pals, MR Benard… - Trends in …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
External degradations in incoming speech reduce understanding, and hearing impairment
further compounds the problem. While cognitive mechanisms alleviate some of the …

Impact of peripheral hearing loss on top-down auditory processing

AMH Lesicko, DA Llano - Hearing research, 2017 - Elsevier
The auditory system consists of an intricate set of connections interposed between
hierarchically arranged nuclei. The ascending pathways carrying sound information from the …