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The Effects Of Acoustic Bandwidth On Simulated Bimodal Benefit In Children And Adults With Normal Hearing, Sterling W. Sheffield, Michelle Simha, Kelly N. Jahn, René H. Gifford
The Effects Of Acoustic Bandwidth On Simulated Bimodal Benefit In Children And Adults With Normal Hearing, Sterling W. Sheffield, Michelle Simha, Kelly N. Jahn, René H. Gifford
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Objectives—The primary purpose of this study was to examine the effect of acoustic bandwidth on bimodal benefit for speech recognition in normal-hearing children with a cochlear implant (CI) simulation in one ear and low-pass filtered stimuli in the contralateral ear. The effect of acoustic bandwidth on bimodal benefit in children was compared to the pattern of adults with normal hearing. Our hypothesis was that children would require a wider acoustic bandwidth than adults to 1) derive bimodal benefit, and 2) obtain asymptotic bimodal benefit.
Design—Nineteen children (6–12 years) and ten adults with normal hearing participated in the study. Speech recognition …