Sound localization in the median sagittal plane by hearing impaired listeners

1995 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 3346-3347
Author(s):  
Brad Rakerd ◽  
Timothy J. Vander Velde ◽  
William Morris Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Sound Localization ◽  
Sagittal Plane ◽  
Hearing Impaired

scholarly journals HearMeVirtual Reality: Using Virtual Reality to Facilitate Empathy Between Hearing Impaired Children and Their Parents

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasse Embøl ◽  
Carl Hutters ◽  
Andreas Junker ◽  
Daniel Reipur ◽  
Ali Adjorlu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Sound Localization ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Speech Corpus ◽  
Open Set ◽  
Localization Test

Cochlear implants (CI) enable hearing in individuals with sensorineural hearing loss, albeit with difficulties in speech perception and sound localization. In noisy environments, these difficulties are disproportionately greater for CI users than for children with no reported hearing loss. Parents of children with CIs are motivated to experience what CIs sound like, but options to do so are limited. This study proposes using virtual reality to simulate having CIs in a school setting with two contrasting settings: a noisy playground and a quiet classroom. To investigate differences between hearing conditions, an evaluation utilized a between-subjects design with 15 parents (10 female, 5 male; age M = 38.5, SD = 6.6) of children with CIs with no reported hearing loss. In the virtual environment, a word recognition and sound localization test using an open-set speech corpus compared differences between simulated unilateral CI, simulated bilateral CI, and normal hearing conditions in both settings. Results of both tests indicate that noise influences word recognition more than it influences sound localization, but ultimately affects both. Furthermore, bilateral CIs are equally to or significantly beneficial over having a simulated unilateral CI in both tests. A follow-up qualitative evaluation showed that the simulation enabled users to achieve a better understanding of what it means to be an hearing impaired child.

Contribution of spectra of input signals to two ears to sound localization in the sagittal plane

1999 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 2237-2237
Author(s):  
Kazuhiro Iida ◽  
Eigo Rin ◽  
Yasuko Kuroki ◽  
Masayuki Morimoto
Keyword(s):  
Sound Localization ◽  
Sagittal Plane ◽  
Input Signals

Sound localization in noise in hearing-impaired listeners

1999 ◽  
Vol 105 (6) ◽  
pp. 3454-3463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Lorenzi ◽  
Stuart Gatehouse ◽  
Catherine Lever
Keyword(s):  
Sound Localization ◽  
Hearing Impaired

Sound localization in noise in hearing‐impaired listeners

1997 ◽  
Vol 101 (5) ◽  
pp. 3104-3105
Author(s):  
Christian Lorenzi ◽  
Stuart Gatehouse ◽  
Catherine Lever
Keyword(s):  
Sound Localization ◽  
Hearing Impaired
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