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  • Title: Better-ear glimpsing with symmetrically-placed interferers in bilateral cochlear implant users.
    Author: Hu H, Dietz M, Williges B, Ewert SD.
    Journal: J Acoust Soc Am; 2018 Apr; 143(4):2128. PubMed ID: 29716260.
    Abstract:
    For a frontal target in spatially symmetrically placed interferers, normal hearing (NH) listeners can use "better-ear glimpsing" to select time-frequency segments with favorable signal-to-noise ratio in either ear. With an ideal monaural better-ear mask (IMBM) processing, some studies showed that NH listeners can reach similar performance as in the natural binaural listening condition, although interaural phase differences at low frequencies can further improve performance. In principle, bilateral cochlear implant (BiCI) listeners could use the same better-ear glimpsing, albeit without exploiting interaural phase differences. Speech reception thresholds of NH and BiCI listeners were measured in three interferers (speech-shaped stationary noise, nonsense speech, or single talker) either co-located with the target, symmetrically placed at ±60°, or independently presented to each ear, with and without IMBM processing. Furthermore, a bilateral noise vocoder based on the BiCI electrodogram was used in the same NH listeners. Headphone presentation and direct stimulation with head-related transfer functions for spatialization were used in NH and BiCI listeners, respectively. Compared to NH listeners, both NH listeners with vocoder and BiCI listeners showed strongly reduced binaural benefit from spatial separation. However, both groups greatly benefited from IMBM processing as part of the stimulation strategy.
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