Neural and behavioral sensitivity to interaural time differences using amplitude modulated tones with mismatched carrier frequencies.

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Deidra A Blanks,Jason M Roberts,Emily Buss,Joseph W Hall,Douglas C Fitzpatrick,

Bilateral cochlear implantation is intended to provide the advantages of binaural hearing, including sound localization and better speech recognition in noise. In most modern implants, temporal information is carried by the envelope of pulsatile stimulation, and thresholds to interaural time differences (ITDs) are generally high compared to those obtained in normal hearing observers. One factor thought to influence ITD sensitivity is the overlap of neural populations stimulated on each side. The present study investigated the effects of acoustically stimulating bilaterally mismatched neural populations in two related paradigms: rabbit neural recordings and human psychophysical testing. The neural coding of interaural envelope timing information was measured in recordings from neurons in the inferior colliculus of the unanesthetized rabbit. Binaural beat stimuli with a 1-Hz difference in modulation frequency were presented at the best modulation frequency and intensity as the carrier frequencies at each ear were varied. Some neurons encoded envelope ITDs with carrier frequency mismatches as great as several octaves. The synchronization strength was typically nonmonotonically related to intensity. Psychophysical data showed that human listeners could also make use of binaural envelope cues for carrier mismatches of up to 2-3 octaves. Thus, the physiological and psychophysical data were broadly consistent, and suggest that bilateral cochlear implants should provide information sufficient to detect envelope ITDs even in the face of bilateral mismatch in the neural populations responding to stimulation. However, the strongly nonmonotonic synchronization to envelope ITDs suggests that the limited dynamic range with electrical stimulation may be an important consideration for ITD encoding.

Neural and behavioral sensitivity to interaural time differences using amplitude modulated tones with mismatched carrier frequencies. Publishing Authors By Initials

DA Blanks,JM Roberts,E Buss,JW Hall,DC Fitzpatrick,

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PUBLICATION TYPE: Research Support, N.I.H., Extr

Journal: Journal of the Association for Research in Otolary

VOLUME: 8

Page Numbers: 393-408

Journal Abbreviation: J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol.

ISSN: 1525-3961

DAY: 27

MONTH: 07

YEAR: 2007

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AFFILIATION: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, CB #7070, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7070, USA.

Country: United States

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