Dorien Ceuleers, Hannah Keppler, Sofie Degeest, Nele Baudonck, Freya Swinnen, Katrien Kestens, Ingeborg Dhooge
OBJECTIVES: Speech understanding is considered a bimodal and bidirectional process, whereby visual information (i.e., speechreading) and also cognitive functions (i.e., top-down processes) are involved. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is twofold: (1) to investigate the auditory (A), visual (V), and cognitive (C) abilities in normal-hearing individuals, hearing aid (HA) users, and cochlear implant (CI) users, and (2) to determine an auditory, visual, cognitive (AVC)-profile providing a comprehensive overview of a person's speech processing abilities, containing a broader variety of factors involved in speech understanding...
January 9, 2024: Ear and Hearing