Individual hearing-impaired listeners compensate by relying on whichever pitch code remains intact

Evidence

Moore and Peters also noted considerable variability across the listeners in the study, with some SNHL listeners performing near normal and others performing much worse than the normal-hearing listeners. They argued that some listeners may lose place cues to pitch, requiring them to rely more on the temporal code, and other listeners may lose temporal cues, requiring them to rely more on the place code. Taken as a whole, they suggested that both place and temporal cues can be important for pitch perception and that either code for pitch can be impacted by hearing loss. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1333

Categorization

• XREF: Pattern of variable individual compensation parallels adaptive-reweighting findings from normal cochlear-implant and audiometric research.