| Literature DB >> 29289073 |
Qian-Jie Fu1, John J Galvin1, Xiaosong Wang1.
Abstract
Differences in current spread and/or spread of excitation may differently affect integration of acoustic and electric hearing within (electric-acoustic stimulation, or EAS) or across ears (bimodal). In this study, vowel recognition was measured in normal-hearing subjects listening to simulations of cochlear implant (CI), EAS, and bimodal listening. Residual acoustic hearing was limited between 0.1 and 0.6 kHz. The carrier bandwidth in the CI simulations was varied across carriers: broad-band noise, narrow-band noise, and sine waves. Results showed that reducing the bandwidth (and the inherent noise fluctuations) in the CI simulations significantly affected CI-only and bimodal performance, but not EAS performance.Mesh:
Year: 2017 PMID: 29289073 PMCID: PMC6909988 DOI: 10.1121/1.5017530
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Acoust Soc Am ISSN: 0001-4966 Impact factor: 1.840