Summary
PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Binaural hearing provides substantial benefits in complex listening environments, improving the ability to understand speech and providing the ability to localize sounds. However, in order to take advantage of binaural cues, sounds from the two ears need to be integrated (binaural integration). Binaural integration does not fully occur for some populations of listeners, such as cochlear implant (CI) users. Whether, and the degree to which, binaural integration occurs depends on two aspects of the acoustic signal. One aspect is the statistical similarity between the w
