OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the benefit of having preserved acoustic hearing in the implanted ear for speech recognition in complex listening environments. DESIGN The present study included a within-subjects, repeated-measures design including 21 English-speaking and 17 Polish-speaking cochlear implant (CI) recipients with preserved acoustic hearing in the implanted ear. The...

Increased global interaction has led to increased communication between individuals with wide ranging linguistic experience. As a consequence, the ramifications of accent in speech production need to be better understood. It is plausible that differences in speech intelligibility due to accent type affect gross intelligibility in different ways. These differences may be differentially affected ...

Sensorineural loss is characterized by increased hearing threshold, reduction in the dynamic range of hearing and loudness recruitment, and increased temporal and spectral masking, resulting in degraded speech perception. Several techniques including spectral contrast enhancement, multi-band frequency compression, and dichotic binaural presentation have been investigated for reducing the advers...

Introduction: Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is a true emergency that must be diagnosed and treated immediately. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of treatment with intratympanic dexamethasone plus oral prednisolone daily or every other day with that of treatment with oral prednisolone alone. Materials and Methods: Sixty-three patients with SSNHL that had been p...

Over recent years we tested speech understanding and localization abilities of bilateral CI users with an extensive test battery [1, 2]. Figure 1, top panel, shows results of the speech test for seven bilateral CI users. Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) with speech and noise presented from the front were measured in the free-field. SRTs were between 0 and +6 dB, i.e. performance differed desp...

Matrix tests are available for speech recognition testing in many languages. For an accurate measurement, a steep psychometric function of the speech materials is required. For existing tests, it would be beneficial if it were possible to further optimize the available materials by increasing the function's steepness. The objective is to show if the steepness of the psychometric function of an ...

INTRODUCTION Even though modern technology progresses so rapidly, annals of otology are replete with so many challenging article, which often compare various types of prosthesis. Since there has not been a prospective randomized clinical trial study which compares the hearing result of total ossicular replacement prosthesis made of Titanium with omega connector and Polycel in the literature, we...