Horizontal sound localization in cochlear implant users with a contralateral hearing aid.

Lidwien C E Veugen1, Maartje M E Hendrikse1, Marc M van Wanrooij2

  • 1Department of Biophysics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 GL, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Hearing Research
|May 15, 2016
PubMed
Summary

Bimodal hearing with a cochlear implant (CI) and hearing aid (HA) often results in poor sound localization. Binaural cues, like interaural level differences (ILDs), are likely used but are perturbed, causing biased sound perception.

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