Yang-Soo Yoon

Objectives: To optimize patient’s maps in Electric Acoustic Stimulation (EAS) users based on the degree of post-operative aided hearing thresholds. Methods: Twenty-one adult EAS patients participated in this study. Patients were subdivided into three groups, based on their unaided hearing threshold: (1) electric complementary (EC, n = 6) patients w...

Purpose: The present study used the acoustic simulation of bilateral cochlear implants to investigate the effect of presentation level (EXP 1) and channel interaction (EXP 2) on binaural summation benefit in speech recognition. Methods: The acoustic 6-channel processors were constructed, and the envelope of each band was used to modulate a sinusoi...

Objectives The present study characterizes the relationship between bimodal benefit and hearing aid (HA) performance, cochlear implant (CI) performance, and the difference in the performances of the two devices. Methods Fourteen adult bimodal listeners participated in the study. Consonant, vowel, and sentence recognition were measured in quiet and...

Objectives: This study investigated whether a spectral mismatch across ears influences the benefit of redundancy, squelch, and head shadow differently in speech perception using acoustic simulation of bilateral cochlear implant (CI) processing. Design: Ten normal-hearing subjects participated in the study, and acoustic simulations of CIs were us...

To compare the speech perception benefit, provided by a contralateral hearing aid (HA) or a second cochlear implant (CI). Repeated measures. A total of 25 adult subjects participated in the study, including 12 bilateral (10 female and 2 male patients) and 13 bimodal (6 female and 7 male subjects) users. All bilateral users were sequentially implant...

In this study, the authors aimed to identify speech information processed by a hearing aid (HA) that is additive to information processed by a cochlear implant (CI) as a function of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Speech recognition was measured with CI alone, HA alone, and CI + HA. Ten participants were separated into 2 groups; good (aided pure-tone...

Although poorer understanding of speech in noise by listeners who are hearing-impaired (HI) is known not to be directly related to audiometric hearing threshold, HT (f), grouping HI listeners with HT (f) is widely practiced. In this article, the relationship between consonant recognition and HT (f) is considered over a range of signal-to-noise rati...

The present study investigated the effects of binaural spectral mismatch on binaural benefits in the context of bilateral cochlear implants using acoustic simulations. Binaural spectral mismatch was systematically manipulated by simulating changes in the relative insertion depths across ears. Sentence recognition, presented unilaterally and bilater...

The full benefit of bilateral cochlear implants may depend on the unilateral performance with each device, the speech materials, processing ability of the user, and/or the listening environment. In this study, bilateral and unilateral speech performances were evaluated in terms of recognition of phonemes and sentences presented in quiet or in noise...

Stratified sampling plans can increase the accuracy and facilitate the interpretation of a dataset characterizing a large population. However, such sampling plans have found minimal use in hearing aid (HA) research, in part because of a paucity of quantitative data on the characteristics of HA users. The goal of this study was to devise a quantitat...

While considerable evidence suggests that bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users' sound localization abilities rely primarily on interaural level difference (ILD) cues, and only secondarily, if at all, on interaural time difference (ITD) cues, this evidence has largely been indirect. This study used head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to indepen...

This paper presents a compact graphical method for comparing the performance of individual hearing impaired (HI) listeners with that of an average normal hearing (NH) listener on a consonant-by-consonant basis. This representation, named the consonant loss profile (CLP), characterizes the effect of a listener's hearing loss on each consonant over a...