Bilateral cochlear implants in children: Effects of auditory experience and deprivation on auditory perception.

ABSTRACT: Spatial hearing skills are essential for children as they grow, learn and play. These skills provide critical cues for determining the locations of sources in the environment, and enable segregation of important sounds, such as speech, from background maskers or interferers. Spatial hearing depends on availability of monaural cues and binaural cues. The latter result from integration of inputs arriving at the two ears from sounds that vary in location. The binaural system has exquisite mechanisms for capturing differences between the ears in both time of arrival and intensity. The major cues that are thus referred to as being vital for binaural hearing are: interaural differences in time (ITDs) and interaural differences in levels (ILDs). In children with normal hearing (NH), spatial heari

SUBMITTER: Litovsky RY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5647834 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature