Author(s): Gilbert ML; Lewis RM; Deroche MLD; Jiam NT; Jiradejvong P; Mo J; Cooke DL; Limb CJ;

Hypothesis: To determine whether chronic use of experimental computed tomography (CT)-based frequency allocations would improve cochlear implant (CI) user performance in the areas of speech and music perception, as compared to the clinical default frequency mapping provided by the CI manufacturer. Background: CIs utilize default frequency maps to distrib ...

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Author(s): Gagné N; Greenlaw KM; Coffey EBJ;

Hearing-in-noise (HIN) is a challenging task that is essential to human functioning in social, vocational, and educational contexts. Successful speech perception in noisy settings is thought to rely in part on the brain's ability to enhance neural representations of attended speech. In everyday HIN situations, important features of speech (i.e., pitch ...

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Author(s): Kousaie S; Baum S; Phillips NA; Gracco V; Titone D; Chen JK; Chai XJ; Klein D;

Given the ubiquity of noisy environments and increasing globalization, the necessity to perceive speech in noise in a non-native language is common and necessary for successful communication. In the current investigation, bilingual individuals who learned their non-native language at different ages underwent magnetic resonance imaging while listening to s ...

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