Sound Localization in Patients With Congenital Unilateral Conductive Hearing Loss With a Transcutaneous Bone Conduction Implant.

Objective: There is no consensus regarding the benefit of implantable hearing aids in congenital unilateral conductive hearing loss (UCHL). This study aimed to measure sound source localization performance in patients with congenital UCHL and contralateral normal hearing who received a new bone conduction implant.

Study Design: Evaluation of within-subject performance differences for sound source localization in a horizontal plane.

Effects of Stimulation Rate With the FS4 and HDCIS Coding Strategies in Cochlear Implant Recipients.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of stimulation rate on speech perception and sound quality for the fine structure strategy FS4 and the envelope-based strategy high definition continuous interleaved sampling (HDCIS).

Study Design: Randomized crossover trial with four conditions.

Setting: Tertiary referral.

Noun plural production in preschoolers with early cochlear implantation: an experimental study of Dutch and German.

Objectives: Studies investigating language skills of children after cochlear implantation usually present general measures of expressive/receptive vocabulary and grammar and rarely tackle the acquisition of specific language phenomena (word classes, grammatical constructions, word forms, etc.). Furthermore, research is largely restricted to children acquiring English.

Indication criteria and outcomes with the Bonebridge transcutaneous bone-conduction implant.

Objectives/hypothesis: The aim of this study was to evaluate functional hearing gain, speech understanding, and preoperative bone-conduction thresholds with the bone-conduction implant Bonebridge.

Study Design: Retrospective study at a tertiary referral center.

Methods: Twenty-four consecutive Bonebridge patients were identified.

FS4, FS4-p, and FSP: a 4-month crossover study of 3 fine structure sound-coding strategies.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to compare two novel fine structure strategies "FS4" and "FS4-p" with the established fine structure processing (FSP) strategy. FS4 provides fine structure information on the apical four-electrode channels. With FS4-p, these electrodes may be stimulated in a parallel manner.

Residual hearing preservation using the suprameatal approach for cochlear implantation.

Objective: Cochlear implantation of patients with high-frequency hearing loss and residual low-frequency hearing has become a new treatment standard within the last years. The objective of this study was to evaluate the rate of hearing preservation in cochlear implantation for electric-acoustic stimulation using the suprameatal approach.

Methods: Five patients (mean age 48.

Envelope versus fine structure speech coding strategy: a crossover study.

Objective: The transmission of fine structure information to cochlear implant users is an expanding area of research. Previous studies comparing the fine structure processing (FSP) speech coding strategy to the envelope-based continuous interleaved sampling (CIS) strategy indicated improved speech perception when using the fine structure strategy. Those investigations were performed with an extended frequency spectrum in the low frequencies together with the fine structure strategy.