Name:
Yvette E. Smulders
Department Otolaryngology
Section Brain function and plasticity
Function:
PhD-student
E-mail:
y.e.smulders@umcutrecht.nl Tel: +31 88-7551644
Supervisor:
Prof. Dr. W. Grolman
Title research:
Bilateral Cochlear Implantation Benefits in Adult Users of the HiRes 90K Bionic Ear System
Summary research:
Normal-hearing listeners gain important benefits from having two ears. Users of a Bionic Ear achieve high levels of spoken word recognition when speech is presented in quiet. However they experience difficulty in the presence of competing sounds and are poor at identifying where sounds come from. These limitations may be overcome, to some degree, by providing an implant to both ears. This study will investigate bilateral versus unilateral benefit in adults who are implanted with two Bionic Ears either simultaneously or sequentially.