Speech Perception with Spectrally Non-overlapping Maskers as Measure of Spectral Resolution in Cochlear Implant Users

AbstractPoor spectral resolution contributes to the difficulties experienced by cochlear implant (CI) users when listening to speech in noise. However, correlations between measures of spectral resolution and speech perception in noise have not always been found to be robust. It may be that the relationship between spectral resolution and speech perception in noise becomes clearer in conditions where the speech and noise are not spectrally matched, so that improved spectral resolution can assist in separating the speech from the masker. To test this prediction, speech intelligibility was measured with noise or tone maskers that were presented either in the same spectral channels as the speech or in interleaved spectral channels. Spectral resolution was estimated via a spectral ripple discr...

from #Head and Neck by Sfakianakis via simeraentaxei on Inoreader https://ift.tt/2qT6sg6