Reducing the Device Delay Mismatch Can Improve Sound Localization in Bimodal Cochlear Implant/Hearing-Aid Users
- In users of a cochlear implant (CI) together with a contralateral hearing aid (HA), so-called bimodal listeners, differences in processing latencies between digital HA and CI up to 9 ms constantly superimpose interaural time differences. In the present study, the effect of this device delay mismatch on sound localization accuracy was investigated. For this purpose, localization accuracy in theIn users of a cochlear implant (CI) together with a contralateral hearing aid (HA), so-called bimodal listeners, differences in processing latencies between digital HA and CI up to 9 ms constantly superimpose interaural time differences. In the present study, the effect of this device delay mismatch on sound localization accuracy was investigated. For this purpose, localization accuracy in the frontal horizontal plane was measured with the original and minimized device delay mismatch. The reduction was achieved by delaying the CI stimulation according to the delay of the individually worn HA. For this, a portable, programmable, battery-powered delay line based on a ring buffer running on a microcontroller was designed and assembled. After an acclimatization period to the delayed CI stimulation of 1 hr, the nine bimodal study participants showed a highly significant improvement in localization accuracy of 11.6% compared with the everyday situation without the delay line (p < .01). Concluding, delaying CI stimulation to minimize the device delay mismatch seems to be a promising method to increase sound localization accuracy in bimodal listeners.…
Document Type: | Article (reviewed) |
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Zitierlink: | https://opus.hs-offenburg.de/3668 | Bibliografische Angaben |
Title (English): | Reducing the Device Delay Mismatch Can Improve Sound Localization in Bimodal Cochlear Implant/Hearing-Aid Users |
Author: | Stefan ZirnStaff MemberORCiDGND, Julian AngermeierStaff MemberORCiDGND, Susan Arndt, Antje Aschendorff, Thomas WesargORCiDGND |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Date of first Publication: | 2019/04/25 |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 13 |
Parent Title (English): | Trends in Hearing |
Volume: | 23 |
ISSN: | 2331-2165 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216519843876 |
URL: | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332637275 |
Language: | English | Inhaltliche Informationen |
Institutes: | Fakultät Elektrotechnik, Medizintechnik und Informatik (EMI) (ab 04/2019) |
Institutes: | Bibliografie |
DDC classes: | 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften |
Tag: | bimodal hearing; cochlear implant; hearing aid; interaural stimulation timing; sound localization | Formale Angaben |
Open Access: | Open Access |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |