H91.9
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: The subjects are patients with a cochlear implant (CI) who are between 18 and 90 years old. The participants are postlingually (i.e., after language acquisition) deafened CI users who have ha
Sponsors
Cochlear Research and Development Limited
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 90 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Bimodal CI patients (with hearing loss in the range of WHO 2 or 3 on the contralateral hearing-aid ear). Patients are postlingually deafened adults with at least one year of CI experience and who are supplied by the Nucleus sound processor N7 or Kanso2 (Cochlear Limited).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with neurological damage and pathological, mental limitations are excluded from the examinations; the same applies to patients who take medication that affects the central nervous system.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The advantages of ForwardFocus can be objectively validated by using event-related potentials. The primary goal of this study is to objectively evaluate expected positive effects of the noise reduction algorithm "ForwardFocus" with respect to the processing of ecologically valid speech stimuli (syllables) in noise. Specifically, the following two main questions will be investigated: 1) Do cortical event-related potentials provide objective evidence for positive effects of noise reduction by "ForwardFocus" in auditory and audiovisual speech conditions? 2) Does "ForwardFocus" influence audiovisual interactions and cross-modal activation in the auditory cortex? | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactPascale Sandmann
HNO Uniklinik Köln
Outcome results
None listed