Enhancing spatial hearing with cochlear implants: exploring the role of AI, multimodal interaction and perceptual training
Lorenzo Picinali, Robert Baumgartner, Valerie Gaveau, Antonino Greco, Stefanie Liebe, Paul Oomen, Christoph Braun
TL;DR
A multi-disciplinary research framework in which physicians, psychologists and engineers collaborate to improve spatial hearing for CI users is proposed.
Abstract
Cochlear implants (CIs) have been developed to the point where they can restore hearing and speech understanding in a large proportion of patients. Although spatial hearing is central to controlling and directing attention and to enabling speech understanding in noisy environments, it has been largely neglected in the past. We propose here a multi-disciplinary research framework in which physicians, psychologists and engineers collaborate to improve spatial hearing for CI users.