Combined Electric and Acoustic Stimulation With Hearing Preservation: Effect of Cochlear Implant Low-Frequency Cutoff on Speech Understanding and Perceived Listening Difficulty.

Gifford RH, Davis TJ, Sunderhaus LW, Menapace C, Buck B, Crosson J, O'Neill L, Beiter A, Segel P. Combined Electric and Acoustic Stimulation With Hearing Preservation: Effect of Cochlear Implant Low-Frequency Cutoff on Speech Understanding and Perceived Listening Difficulty. Ear and hearing. 2017 Mar 15. PMID: 28301392 [PubMed]

Abstract

The primary objective of this study was to assess the effect of electric and acoustic overlap for speech understanding in typical listening conditions using semidiffuse noise.