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Bilateral cochlear implants in children: localization acuity measured with minimum audible angleRuth Y Litovsky
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
Ear Hear 27:43-59. 2006..In addition, to investigate the extent to which a hearing aid in the nonimplanted ear can also provide benefits on this task...- Role of binaural hearing in speech intelligibility and spatial release from masking using vocoded speechSoha N Garadat
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 126:2522-35. 2009..The nearly normal binaural benefits under present simulation conditions and the lack of order of processing effect further suggest that preservation of binaural cues is likely to improve performance in bilaterally implanted recipients... - Production of contrast between sibilant fricatives by children with cochlear implantsAnn E Todd
University of Wisconsin Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 130:3969-79. 2011..The results indicate that there may be differences between the speech sounds produced by children with CIs and their normally hearing peers even for sounds that adults judge as correct... - Spatial hearing and speech intelligibility in bilateral cochlear implant usersRuth Y Litovsky
Department of Communicative Disorders, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
Ear Hear 30:419-31. 2009..The third aim was to examine whether sound lateralization (right versus left) emerges before sound localization within a hemifield... - Speech intelligibility in free field: spatial unmasking in preschool childrenSoha N Garadat
Waisman Center University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 121:1047-55. 2007..These tests have potentially useful applications in clinical settings, where bilateral fittings of amplification devices are evaluated... - Effect of age at onset of deafness on binaural sensitivity in electric hearing in humansRuth Y Litovsky
University of Wisconsin Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 127:400-14. 2010..There were no effects of place of stimulation on binaural sensitivity, suggesting that there is no indication of a dependence of ITD sensitivity on apical vs basal electrode location... - Effects of simulated spectral holes on speech intelligibility and spatial release from masking under binaural and monaural listeningSoha N Garadat
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 127:977-89. 2010..It is possible that customized programming for bilateral CI processors based on knowledge about dead regions can enhance performance in adverse listening situations... - Difference in precedence effect between children and adults signifies development of sound localization abilities in complex listening tasksRuth Y Litovsky
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 128:1979-91. 2010..The errors are greater for children than adults. Results are discussed in the context of maturation of auditory and non-auditory factors... - A cocktail party model of spatial release from masking by both noise and speech interferersGARY L JONES
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 130:1463-74. 2011..These findings suggest that this approach can be used to accurately model SRM for speech maskers in addition to primarily "energetic" noise maskers... - Role of masker predictability in the cocktail party problemGARY L JONES
Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 124:3818-30. 2008..These results suggest that knowing the number and location(s) of maskers may not necessarily contribute significantly to solving the cocktail party problem, at least not when the location of the target is known... - Spoken word recognition in toddlers who use cochlear implantsTina M Grieco-Calub
University of Wisconsin, Waisman Center, 1500 Highland Avenue, Room 565, Madison, WI 53705, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 52:1390-400. 2009..The purpose of this study was to assess the time course of spoken word recognition in 2-year-old children who use cochlear implants (CIs) in quiet and in the presence of speech competitors... - Benefits of bilateral cochlear implants and/or hearing aids in childrenRuth Y Litovsky
Binaural Hearing and Speech Lab, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53705 1103, USA
Int J Audiol 45:S78-91. 2006..Future advances in binaural fitting strategies and improved speech processing schemes that maximize binaural sensitivity will no doubt contribute to increasing the binaurally-driven advantages in persons with bilateral CIs... - Effect of masker type and age on speech intelligibility and spatial release from masking in children and adultsPatti M Johnstone
Waisman Center University of Wisconsin-Madison, Binaural Hearing and Speech Laboratory, 1500 Highland Avenue, Room 523, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 120:2177-89. 2006.... - Sound localization skills in children who use bilateral cochlear implants and in children with normal acoustic hearingTina M Grieco-Calub
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Ear Hear 31:645-56. 2010..e., localization accuracy) by comparing performance under bilateral and unilateral listening conditions; and to determine whether sound source localization continues to improve with longer durations of bilateral experience... - Bilateral cochlear implants in adults and childrenRuth Y Litovsky
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, 53705, USA
Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 130:648-55. 2004..To measure the benefit (ie, sound localization and speech intelligibility in noise) of bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) in adults and in children... - Experience with bilateral cochlear implants improves sound localization acuity in childrenShelly P Godar
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
Otol Neurotol 31:1287-92. 2010..Because of auditory plasticity, there can be experience-dependent acquisition and refinement of spatial hearing skills... - Predicting echo thresholds from speech onset characteristicsScott D Miller
Department of Psychology and Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 125:EL134-40. 2009..Results were used to evaluate two predictive heuristics adapted from perceptual center (p-center) models... - Review of recent work on spatial hearing skills in children with bilateral cochlear implantsRuth Y Litovsky
University of Wisconsin Madison, Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705, USA
Cochlear Implants Int 12:S30-4. 2011..Review of recent studies on spatial-hearing abilities in children who use bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs); compare performance of children who use BiCIs with children who have normal hearing... - Using the observer-based psychophysical procedure to assess localization acuity in toddlers who use bilateral cochlear implantsTina M Grieco-Calub
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
Otol Neurotol 29:235-9. 2008..Localization acuity will emerge in deaf children who receive bilateral cochlear implants (BI-CIs) before the age of 3 years but not in age-matched children who use a single device... - Speech intelligibility and spatial release from masking in young childrenRuth Y Litovsky
Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 117:3091-9. 2005..The potential utility of the measures used here for studying hearing-impaired children is also discussed... - The benefit of binaural hearing in a cocktail party: effect of location and type of interfererMonica L Hawley
Hearing Research Center and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 115:833-43. 2004.... - Localization dominance in the median-sagittal plane: effect of stimulus durationRoberto M Dizon
Hearing Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 115:3142-55. 2004..These results suggest that accurate localization of a co-located lead-lag pair is necessary for localization dominance to occur when the lag is spatially separated from the lead... - The role of head-induced interaural time and level differences in the speech reception threshold for multiple interfering sound sourcesJohn F Culling
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3YG, United Kingdom
J Acoust Soc Am 116:1057-65. 2004..Thus, an explanation of speech understanding in complex listening environments based on the combination of best-ear listening and binaural unmasking (without involving sound-localization) cannot be excluded... - Binaural unmasking with bilateral cochlear implantsChristopher J Long
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Rd, Cambridge, CB2 2EF, UK
J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 7:352-60. 2006..Furthermore, because the tested patients had been deprived of binaural hearing for eight or more years, our results show that some sensitivity to time-varying interaural cues can persist over extended periods of binaural deprivation... - Functional role of the human inferior colliculus in binaural hearingRuth Y Litovsky
Boston University, Hearing Research Center, MA, USA
Hear Res 165:177-88. 2002....