Hearing History Influences Voice Gender Perceptual Performance in Cochlear Implant Users KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES: The study was carried out to assess the role that five hearing history variables (chronological age, age at onset of deafness, age of first cochlear implant [CI] activation, duration of CI use, and duration of known deafness) play in the ability of CI users to identify speaker gender. DESIGN: Forty-one juvenile CI users participated in two voice gender identification tasks. In a fixed, single-interval task, subjects listened to a ...