Optimizing cochlear implants for better perception of speech on speech - OCISS

niversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen0 sites231 target enrollmentStarted: TBDLast updated: April 23, 2024

Conditions

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•In order to be eligible to participate in the NH group of this study, a subject must meet all of the following criteria:
•- Be aged 18 years or more.
•- Have no history of hearing or language disorder.
•- Have no vision deficit (after correction) and be able to manipulate a mouse.
•- Participants must generally in good health.
•In order to be eligible to participate in the CI group of this study, a subject must meet all of the following criteria:
•- Be aged 18 or more.
•- Score more than 50% in the NVA speech in quiet intelligibility test (to allow good communication with the experimenter).
•- Have no vision deficit (after correction) and be able to manipulate a mouse.
•- All have comparable devices, or at least devices with comparable electrode-array length, whichever is the most common.
•- Participants must generally be in good health, apart from hearing-impairment.

•- For the NH group, participants who have audiometric pure-tone average threshold higher than 25 dB-HL over mid-frequencies, in the better ear (Stephens, 1996). This will be measured during the first session.
•- All subjects who appear not in good health.
•- All subjects who show signs of claustrophobia.

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