Lacking MOC gain control partly explains CI users’ poor speech-in-noise performance

Evidence

The potential benefits attributed here to the contralateral MOCR are unavailable to current CI users and this might explain part of their impaired performance understanding speech in challenging environments. The present results suggest that the MOC processor, or a version of it, might improve CI performance. The MOC strategy may also be adapted for use with bilateral hearing aids. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1939 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: MOC-related gain control enhances spatial segregation of competing speakers; Natural cocktail-party processing emerges from head shadow combined with MOC gain inhibition; Missing efferent benefits may explain cochlear-implant users’ speech-in-noise deficits — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1939 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Missing efferent benefits may explain cochlear-implant users’ speech-in-noise deficits #corroborates (0.95) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 1939