Binaural Pitch Fusion in Children With Normal Hearing, Hearing Aids, and Cochlear Implants.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Binaural pitch fusion is the perceptual integration of stimuli that evoke different pitches between the ears into a single auditory image. Adults who use hearing aids (HAs) or cochlear implants (CIs) often experience abnormally broad binaural pitch fusion, such that sounds differing in pitch by as much as 3 to 4 octaves are fused across ears, leading to spectral averaging and speech perception interference. The main goal of this study was to measure binaural pitch fusion in children with different hearing device combinations and compare results across groups and with adults. A second goal was to examine the relationship of binaural pitch fusion to interaural pitch differences or pitch match range, a measure of sequential pitch discriminability.

Design

Binaural pit

SUBMITTER: Hartling CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9014818 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov/Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature