The purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of an anatomy-based frequency distribution in comparison to a default frequency distribution in bimodal CI patients, i.e. wearing a cochlear implant and a contralateral hearing aid. Speech perception in quiet, speech perception in noise, consonant/vowel discrimination and pitch/timbre perception will be assessed in an acute set-up with both the default fitting map and the anatomy-based fitting map.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
25
Programming of cochlear implant speech processor with anatomy-based fitting
Programming of cochlear implant speech processor according to standard clinical care
Antwerp University Hopsital
Antwerp, Belgium
RECRUITINGUniversity Hospital Brussels
Brussels, Belgium
RECRUITINGSpeech recognition test in quiet
Percentage correctly identified phonemes
Time frame: Day 1 (single study visit), post intervention
Speech recognition test in noise (S0N0, S0N90)
Speech reception threshold in dB SNR
Time frame: Day 1 (single study visit), post- intervention
Vowel and consonant identification task (ASSE)
Number of correctly identified vowels and correctly identified consonants
Time frame: Day 1 (single study visit), post-intervention
Pitch and timbre ranking
Score on visual analog scale (VAS) with a range from 0 (duller than the reference) to 10 (brighter than the reference). The score of 5 means an exact match with the timbre or pitch of the hearing aid.
Time frame: Day 1 (single study visit), post intervention
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