A new study examining music habits among cochlear implant users has found that better hearing ability with the implant—as measured by standard speech tests—significantly correlates with increased time ...

Study participants had an average of 7.5 years of cochlear implant experience and rated their current music enjoyment at 5.9 on a 10-point scale (slightly above neutral). Time spent listening to music ...

Binaural auditory processing underpins our ability to localise sounds and segregate auditory scenes. In cochlear implant (CI) users, the extraction of critical spatial cues—such as interaural time ...

Audiologists from the University of Southampton are investigating how a new patient-centred approach can help cochlear implant users manage their own care programme. A cochlear implant is a surgically ...

Children with hearing impairments and their families are sometimes fighting battles that most of us may know nothing about, ...

Major advancements are being made for people who use hearing aids and cochlear implants. Global Partnerships for Research and ...

While cochlear implants do allow some deaf people to hear, they also incorporate potentially problematic external components located on the side of the head. That could soon change, however, thanks to ...

Youth with congenital deafness treated with gene therapy showed better progress on certain hearing measures than counterparts treated with cochlear implantation in a cohort study from China. Gene ...

When deaf athletes with cochlear implants take part in sports like rugby, they have to wear headgear that protects the external parts of their implant. A new wearable serves that same purpose, while ...

Driven by a shared commitment to advancing hearing health, global hearing technology leaders Starkey and MED-EL are bringing their exclusive collaboration to life. Introducing DualSync, a bimodal ...