Advantages of Binaural Hearing

Title
Advantages of Binaural Hearing
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Dunn, Camille C
Yost, William
Noble, William Glass
Tyler, Richard S
Witt, Shelley A
Editor
Editor(s): S B Waltzman and J T Roland
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Thieme Medical Publishers Inc
Place of publication
New York, United States of America
Edition
2
UNE publication id
une:4824
Abstract
The human auditory system possesses an amazing ability to hear sounds with two ears and to combine the two signals into one to be processed by the brain. This is called binaural processing. This chapter discusses the cues that our auditory system uses to recognize sounds and to separate them into different sound sources, and how listeners with hearing aids and cochlear implants use these cues to enable binaural hearing. It should be noted that most of this discussion on how the auditory system processes sounds is based on findings generally tested in a controlled laboratory environment. Therefore, we try to generalize our discussion to how the auditory system may work in a noncontrolled environment (i.e., a local restaurant).
Link
Citation
Cochlear Implants, p. 205-213
ISBN
9781588904133
Start page
205
End page
213

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