Excitation Patterns of Standard and Steered Partial Tripolar Stimuli in Cochlear Implants

Identifying Impaired Cochlear Implant Channels by Using the Partial- Tripolar Configuration: Implications for Cochlear Implant Fittings

Simulating the effect of spread of excitation in cochlear implants.

A model was developed to simulate acoustically the effects of excitation spread in cochlear implants (CI). Based on neurophysiologic data, the proposed model simulates the electrical-current decay rate associated with broad and narrow types of excitation, such as those produced by monopolar and bipolar electrode configurations. The effect of excitation spread on speech intelligibility was simul...

Speech Perception in Children with Cochlear Implants

Cochlear implants provide access to the speech signal in children with hearing loss that often cannot benefit from acoustic hearing aids. However, despite the numerous positive results in pediatric cochlear implantation, published data still indicated a wide range of performance among implant recipients. Hence, a need to study the possible variables that can affect performance, could account fo...

Emotional Perception of Music in Children with Unilateral Cochlear Implants

Introduction: Cochlear implantation (CI) improves language skills among children with hearing loss. However, children with CIs still fall short of fulfilling some other needs, including musical perception. This is often attributed to the biological, technological, and acoustic limitations of CIs. Emotions play a key role in the understanding and enjoyment of music. The present study aimed to in...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...