OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the safety and efficacy of acoustic and electric sound processing for individuals with significant residual low-frequency hearing and severe-to-profound high-frequency sensorineural hearing loss. STUDY DESIGN Prospective, single-arm repeated measures, single-subject design. METHODS Fifty individuals, ≥ 18 years old, with low-frequency hearing and severe hig...

Moreton (2008) argues for a distinction between analytic bias and channel bias in language learning. Analytic bias is defined as a set of cognitive predispositions for certain types of generalizations, which constrains the learner but does not influence perception and production. Channel bias is defined as „phonetically systematic errors in transmission between speaker and hearer‟. Moreton prop...

This study was designed to examine the phoneme recognition errors of hearing-impaired (HI) listeners on a consonant-by-consonant basis, to show (1) how each HI ear perceives individual consonants differently and (2) how standard clinical measurements (i.e., using a tone and word) fail to predict these differences. Sixteen English consonant-vowel (CV) syllables of six signal-to-noise ratios in s...