Coherent coding of enhanced interaural cues improves sound localization in noise with bilateral cochlear implants

B Williges, T Jürgens, H Hu, M Dietz - Trends in hearing, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Bilateral cochlear implant (BCI) users only have very limited spatial hearing abilities. Speech
coding strategies transmit interaural level differences (ILDs) but in a distorted manner …

A model framework for simulating spatial hearing of bilateral cochlear implant users

H Hu, SA Ausili, B Williges, J Klug… - Acta …, 2023 - acta-acustica.edpsciences.org
Bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) greatly improve spatial hearing acuity for CI users, but
substantial gaps still exist compared to normal-hearing listeners. For example, CI users have …

Chronic bilateral cochlear implant stimulation partially restores neural binaural sensitivity in neonatally-deaf rabbits

W Sunwoo, B Delgutte, Y Chung - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Cochlear implant (CI) users with a prelingual onset of hearing loss show poor sensitivity to
interaural time differences (ITDs), an important cue for sound localization and speech …

Improved neural coding of ITD with bilateral cochlear implants by introducing short inter-pulse intervals

BD Buechel, KE Hancock, Y Chung… - Journal of the Association …, 2018 - Springer
Bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users have poor perceptual sensitivity to interaural time
differences (ITDs), which limits their ability to localize sounds and understand speech in …

Characterizing the relationship between modulation sensitivity and pitch resolution in cochlear implant users

A Camarena, RL Goldsworthy - Hearing Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Cochlear implants are medical devices that have restored hearing to approximately one
million people around the world. Outcomes are impressive and most recipients attain …

A Mixed-Rate Strategy on a Bilaterally-Synchronized Cochlear Implant Processor Offering the Opportunity to Provide Both Speech Understanding and Interaural Time …

SR Dennison, T Thakkar, A Kan, MA Svirsky… - Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background/Objective: Bilaterally implanted cochlear implant (CI) users do not consistently
have access to interaural time differences (ITDs). ITDs are crucial for restoring the ability to …

Temporal-pitch sensitivity in electric hearing with amplitude modulation and inserted pulses with short inter-pulse intervals

MJ Lindenbeck, B Laback, P Majdak… - The Journal of the …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Listeners with cochlear implants (CIs) typically show poor sensitivity to the temporal-
envelope pitch of high-rate pulse trains. Sensitivity to interaural time differences improves …

Modulation depth discrimination by cochlear implant users

JJM Monaghan, RP Carlyon, JM Deeks - Journal of the Association for …, 2022 - Springer
Cochlear implants (CIs) convey the amplitude envelope of speech by modulating high-rate
pulse trains. However, not all of the envelope may be necessary to perceive amplitude …

Pitch perception is more robust to interference and better resolved when provided by pulse rate than by modulation frequency of cochlear implant stimulation

RL Goldsworthy, A Camarena, SRS Bissmeyer - Hearing research, 2021 - Elsevier
Cochlear implants are medical devices that have been used to restore hearing to more than
half a million people worldwide. Most recipients achieve high levels of speech …

Stimulation rate and voice pitch perception in cochlear implants

D Kovačić, CJ James - Journal of the Association for Research in …, 2022 - Springer
The stimulation rate in cochlear implant (CI) sound coding, or the “carrier” rate in pulses per
second (pps), is known to influence pitch perception, as well as loudness perception and …