Combining hearing aids and cochlear implants to solve the cocktail party problem

2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (5) ◽  
pp. 3167-3167
Author(s):  
Fan‐Gang Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
Cocktail Party Problem

scholarly journals Evaluating the Benefit of Hearing Aids in Solving the Cocktail Party Problem

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Marrone ◽  
Christine R. Mason ◽  
Gerald Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
Cocktail Party Problem

Foundations of Language Development in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Infants

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Dani Levine ◽  
Daniela Avelar ◽  
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff ◽  
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek ◽  
Derek M. Houston
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Hearing Devices ◽  
Language Input ◽  
Hearing Children

Copious evidence indicates that, even in the first year of life, children’s language development is beginning and is impacted by a wide array of cognitive and social processes. The extent to which these processes are dependent on early language input is a critical concern for most deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children, who, unlike hearing children, are usually not immersed in a language-rich environment until effective interventions, such as hearing aids or cochlear implants, are implemented. Importantly, some cognitive and social processes are not dependent on the early availability of language input and begin to develop before children are fitted for hearing aids or cochlear implants. Interventions involving parent training may be helpful for enhancing social underpinnings of language and for maximizing DHH children’s language learning once effective hearing devices are in place. Similarly, cognitive training for DHH children may also provide benefit to bolster language development.

scholarly journals Integrated Bimodal Fitting for Unilateral CI Users with Residual Contralateral Hearing

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-206
Author(s):  
Gennaro Auletta ◽  
Annamaria Franzè ◽  
Carla Laria ◽  
Carmine Piccolo ◽  
Carmine Papa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Speech Intelligibility ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Performance Difference ◽  
Test Conditions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Noisy Conditions ◽  
New Formula ◽  
Better Than

Background: The aim of this study was to compare, in users of bimodal cochlear implants, the performance obtained using their own hearing aids (adjusted with the standard NAL-NL1 fitting formula) with the performance using the Phonak Naìda Link Ultra Power hearing aid adjusted with both NAL-NL1 and a new bimodal system (Adaptive Phonak Digital Bimodal (APDB)) developed by Advanced Bionics and Phonak Corporations. Methods: Eleven bimodal users (Naìda CI Q70 + contralateral hearing aid) were enrolled in our study. The users’ own hearing aids were replaced with the Phonak Naìda Link Ultra Power and fitted following the new formula. Speech intelligibility was assessed in quiet and noisy conditions, and comparisons were made with the results obtained with the users’ previous hearing aids and with the Naída Link hearing aids fitted with the NAL-NL1 generic prescription formula. Results: Using Phonak Naìda Link Ultra Power hearing aids with the Adaptive Phonak Digital Bimodal fitting formula, performance was significantly better than that with the users’ own rehabilitation systems, especially in challenging hearing situations for all analyzed subjects. Conclusions: Speech intelligibility tests in quiet settings did not reveal a significant difference in performance between the new fitting formula and NAL-NL1 fittings (using the Naída Link hearing aids), whereas the performance difference between the two fittings was very significant in noisy test conditions.

scholarly journals Acute alcohol intoxication and the cocktail party problem: do “mocktails” help or hinder?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair J. Harvey ◽  
C. Philip Beaman
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Memory Span ◽  
Alcohol Intoxication ◽  
Alcoholic Beverage ◽  
Cognitive Capacity ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
Primary Input ◽  
Cocktail Party Problem ◽  
Null Effect ◽  
Cocktail Party Effect

Abstract Rationale To test the notion that alcohol impairs auditory attentional control by reducing the listener’s cognitive capacity. Objectives We examined the effect of alcohol consumption and working memory span on dichotic speech shadowing and the cocktail party effect—the ability to focus on one of many simultaneous speakers yet still detect mention of one’s name amidst the background speech. Alcohol was expected either to increase name detection, by weakening the inhibition of irrelevant speech, or reduce name detection, by restricting auditory attention on to the primary input channel. Low-span participants were expected to show larger drug impairments than high-span counterparts. Methods On completion of the working memory span task, participants (n = 81) were randomly assigned to an alcohol or placebo beverage treatment. After alcohol absorption, they shadowed speech presented to one ear while ignoring the synchronised speech of a different speaker presented to the other. Each participant’s first name was covertly embedded in to-be-ignored speech. Results The “cocktail party effect” was not affected by alcohol or working memory span, though low-span participants made more shadowing errors and recalled fewer words from the primary channel than high-span counterparts. Bayes factors support a null effect of alcohol on the cocktail party phenomenon, on shadowing errors and on memory for either shadowed or ignored speech. Conclusion Findings suggest that an alcoholic beverage producing a moderate level of intoxication (M BAC ≈ 0.08%) neither enhances nor impairs the cocktail party effect.

scholarly journals Multichannel acoustic source and image dataset for the cocktail party effect in hearing aid and implant users

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Fischer ◽  
Marco Caversaccio ◽  
Wilhelm Wimmer
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
Acoustic Source ◽  
Image Dataset ◽  
Cocktail Party Effect ◽  
Spatial Coordinates ◽  
Acoustic Chamber ◽  
Human Hearing ◽  
Human Sense

AbstractThe Cocktail Party Effect refers to the ability of the human sense of hearing to extract a specific target sound source from a mixture of background noises in complex acoustic scenarios. The ease with which normal hearing people perform this challenging task is in stark contrast to the difficulties that hearing-impaired subjects face in these situations. To help patients with hearing aids and implants, scientists are trying to imitate this ability of human hearing, with modest success so far. To support the scientific community in its efforts, we provide the Bern Cocktail Party (BCP) dataset consisting of 55938 Cocktail Party scenarios recorded from 20 people and a head and torso simulator wearing cochlear implant audio processors. The data were collected in an acoustic chamber with 16 synchronized microphones placed at purposeful positions on the participants’ heads. In addition to the multi-channel audio source and image recordings, the spatial coordinates of the microphone positions were digitized for each participant. Python scripts were provided to facilitate data processing.

Plasticity of tonotopic maps in humans: influence of hearing loss, hearing aids and cochlear implants

2009 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung Thai-Van ◽  
Evelyne Veuillet ◽  
Arnaud Norena ◽  
Jeanne Guiraud ◽  
Lionel Collet
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids

scholarly journals Benefits of bilateral cochlear implants and/or hearing aids in children

2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 78-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Y. Litovsky ◽  
Patti M. Johnstone ◽  
Shelly P. Godar
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Bilateral Cochlear Implants

Far-Advanced Otosclerosis

1993 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
pp. 433-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Frattali ◽  
Robert T. Sataloff
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Tuning Fork ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Stapes Surgery ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing ◽  
Profound Deafness

Profound deafness has received increasing attention in recent years, largely because of the availability of cochlear implants. Consequently, it is especially important for otolaryngologists to remember that a “blank” audiogram does not necessarily mean total or even profound deafness. Patients with far-advanced otosclerosis may have no measurable hearing with routine audiometric testing even in the presence of serviceable sensorineural hearing. Review of nine patients (10 ears) who underwent stapedectomy from 1980 to 1987 reveals that seven of the nine (78%), who had been unable to use a hearing aid preoperatively, obtained serviceable hearing with hearing aids following surgery. Otolaryngologists should depend on a good history and tuning fork examination to avoid being misled by the audiogram, and should not hesitate to offer stapes surgery to patients with far-advanced otosclerosis.

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