Cortical oscillations predict auditory grouping in listeners with and without hearing loss.

ABSTRACT: Auditory grouping relies on the ability to bind tones with coherent spectral features over time to form auditory objects. Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) degrades spectral resolution, and the extent of this degradation varies with the listening configuration. However, it remains unclear how SNHL impacts auditory grouping and whether different listening configurations affect this ability. This study investigated task performance and cortical activity during auditory object detection in four groups with different listening configurations: Twenty normal-hearing (NH) listeners, seventeen bilateral hearing aid users with acoustic-only stimulation (A-only), thirty-one cochlear implant (CI) users with acoustic and electric stimulation (A+E), and seventeen bilateral CI users with electric-only s

SUBMITTER: Alsabbagh N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12424927 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature