Search Results - "Litovsky, Ruth Y"

Bilateral cochlear implants in children: Effects of auditory experience and deprivation on auditory perception by Litovsky, Ruth Y., Gordon, Karen

“…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…”
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Effect of mismatched place-of-stimulation on binaural fusion and lateralization in bilateral cochlear-implant users by Kan, Alan, Stoelb, Corey, Litovsky, Ruth Y, Goupell, Matthew J

“…Bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) have provided some success in improving spatial hearing abilities to patients, but with large variability in performance. One…”
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Comparing fNIRS signal qualities between approaches with and without short channels by Zhou, Xin, Sobczak, Gabriel, McKay, Colette M, Litovsky, Ruth Y

“…Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a non-invasive technique used to measure changes in oxygenated (HbO) and deoxygenated (HbR) hemoglobin,…”
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Signal envelope and speech intelligibility differentially impact auditory motion perception by Warnecke, Michaela, Litovsky, Ruth Y.

“…Our acoustic environment contains a plethora of complex sounds that are often in motion. To gauge approaching danger and communicate effectively, listeners…”
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The impact of temporal fine structure and signal envelope on auditory motion perception by Warnecke, Michaela, Peng, Z Ellen, Litovsky, Ruth Y

“…The majority of psychoacoustic research investigating sound localization has utilized stationary sources, yet most naturally occurring sounds are in motion,…”
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Spatial Hearing and Speech Intelligibility in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users by Litovsky, Ruth Y, Parkinson, Aaron, Arcaroli, Jennifer

“…OBJECTIVE:The abilities to localize sounds and segregate speech from interfering sounds in a complex auditory environment were studied in a group of adults who…”
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Interaural asymmetry of dynamic range: Abnormal fusion, bilateral interference, and shifts in attention by Anderson, Sean R, Gallun, Frederick J, Litovsky, Ruth Y

“…Speech information in the better ear interferes with the poorer ear in patients with bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) who have large asymmetries in speech…”
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Effects of degraded speech processing and binaural unmasking investigated using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) by Zhou, Xin, Sobczak, Gabriel S, McKay, Colette M, Litovsky, Ruth Y

“…The present study aimed to investigate the effects of degraded speech perception and binaural unmasking using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)…”
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Effects of Interaural Pitch Matching and Auditory Image Centering on Binaural Sensitivity in Cochlear Implant Users by Kan, Alan, Litovsky, Ruth Y, Goupell, Matthew J

“…OBJECTIVES:In bilateral cochlear implant users, electrodes mapped to the same frequency range in each ear may stimulate different places in each cochlea due to…”
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Development of Sound Localization Strategies in Children with Bilateral Cochlear Implants by Zheng, Yi, Godar, Shelly P, Litovsky, Ruth Y

“…Localizing sounds in our environment is one of the fundamental perceptual abilities that enable humans to communicate, and to remain safe. Because the acoustic…”
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Sound source localization patterns and bilateral cochlear implants: Age at onset of deafness effects by Anderson, Sean R, Jocewicz, Rachael, Kan, Alan, Zhu, Jun, Tzeng, ShengLi, Litovsky, Ruth Y

“…The ability to determine a sound's location is critical in everyday life. However, sound source localization is severely compromised for patients with hearing…”
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Mixed stimulation rates to improve sensitivity of interaural timing differences in bilateral cochlear implant listeners by Thakkar, Tanvi, Kan, Alan, Jones, Heath G., Litovsky, Ruth Y.

“…Normal hearing listeners extract small interaural time differences (ITDs) and interaural level differences (ILDs) to locate sounds and segregate targets from…”
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Interaural speech asymmetry predicts bilateral speech intelligibility but not listening effort in adults with bilateral cochlear implants by Burg, Emily A, Thakkar, Tanvi D, Litovsky, Ruth Y

“…Bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) can facilitate improved speech intelligibility in noise and sound localization abilities compared to a unilateral implant…”
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Recognition of vocoded words and sentences in quiet and multi-talker babble with children and adults by Goupell, Matthew J, Draves, Garrison T, Litovsky, Ruth Y

“…A vocoder is used to simulate cochlear-implant sound processing in normal-hearing listeners. Typically, there is rapid improvement in vocoded speech…”
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The Effect of Simulated Interaural Frequency Mismatch on Speech Understanding and Spatial Release From Masking by Goupell, Matthew J., Stoelb, Corey A., Kan, Alan, Litovsky, Ruth Y.

“…OBJECTIVE:The binaural-hearing system interaurally compares inputs, which underlies the ability to localize sound sources and to better understand speech in…”
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Response to Letter to the Editor Regarding “Hearing Preservation and Spatial Hearing Outcomes after Cochlear Implantation in Children with TMPRSS3 Mutations” by Peng, Z. Ellen, Garcia, Alejandro, Godar, Shelly P., Holt, Jeffrey R., Lee, Daniel J., Litovsky, Ruth Y.

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Interaural level differences do not suffice for restoring spatial release from masking in simulated cochlear implant listening by Ihlefeld, Antje, Litovsky, Ruth Y

“…Spatial release from masking refers to a benefit for speech understanding. It occurs when a target talker and a masker talker are spatially separated. In those…”
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Speech intelligibility and spatial release from masking in young children by LITOVSKY, Ruth Y

“…Children between the ages of 4 and 7 and adults were tested in free field on speech intelligibility using a four-alternative forced choice paradigm with…”
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The benefit of binaural hearing in a cocktail party: effect of location and type of interferer by Hawley, Monica L, Litovsky, Ruth Y, Culling, John F

“…The "cocktail party problem" was studied using virtual stimuli whose spatial locations were generated using anechoic head-related impulse responses from the…”
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Inhibitory Control in Children 4-10 Years of Age: Evidence From Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Task-Based Observations by Zhou, Xin, Planalp, Elizabeth M, Heinrich, Lauren, Pletcher, Colleen, DiPiero, Marissa, Alexander, Andrew L, Litovsky, Ruth Y, Dean, 3rd, Douglas C

“…Executive function (EF) is essential to child development, with associated skills beginning to emerge in the first few years of life and continuing to develop…”
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