Ricerc@Sapienza

Objective
to investigate the effect of age at CI activation and to explore the role of other variables such as linguistic skills, stimulation modality and gender on reading comprehension.
Study Design
Prospective observational nonrandomized study.
Methods

Purpose
The objectives of this study are to evaluate cochlear implant (CI) listeners’ ability to infer low frequency (LF) pitch information from temporal fine structure (TFS) cues and to gain insight into its effects on speech perception, especially in the presence of a fluctuating background noise. Pitch perception assessment using linguistic stimuli is believed to better reflect the role of pitch in communicatively realistic situations.
Methods