Introduction Hearing-assistive devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants,
transform the lives of hearing-impaired people. However, users often struggle to locate and …

Cochlear implant systems that combine electric and acoustic stimulation in the same ear are
now commercially available and the number of patients using these devices is steadily …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the minimum amount of low-frequency
acoustic information that is required to achieve speech perception benefit in listeners with a …

The majority of recently implanted, cochlear implant patients can potentially benefit from a
hearing aid in the ear contralateral to the implant. When patients combine electric and …

Objective: The primary objective of this study was to assess the effect of electric and acoustic
overlap for speech understanding in typical listening conditions using semidiffuse noise …

The addition of low-frequency acoustic information to real or simulated electric stimulation
(so-called electric-acoustic stimulation or EAS) often results in large improvements in …

Objectives: To measure benefit in terms of speech recognition in quiet and in noise, and
conservation of residual hearing in three groups of subjects implanted with the Nucleus …

Speech reception in noise is an especially difficult problem for listeners with hearing
impairment as well as for users of cochlear implants (CIs). One likely cause of this is an …

Cochlear implants (CIs) are neuroprostheses that partially restore hearing for people with
severe-to-profound hearing loss. While CIs can provide good speech perception in quiet …

Objectives: The detection of fundamental frequency (F0) variations plays a prominent role in
the perception of intonation. Cochlear implant (CI) users with residual hearing might have …