Excess Vowel Fusion in Hearing-Impaired Listeners Across Fundamental Frequency and Spatial Separation in the Free Field: An Alternative Mechanism for Difficulties With Speech in Noise
Published online on July 25, 2026
Abstract
Trends in Hearing, Volume 30, January-December 2026.
Binaural fusion occurs when signals arriving separately at the two ears are perceived as one sound. Previously, it was shown that normal-hearing (NH) or hearing-impaired (HI) listeners fused and perceptually averaged dichotic vowels presented through ...
Binaural fusion occurs when signals arriving separately at the two ears are perceived as one sound. Previously, it was shown that normal-hearing (NH) or hearing-impaired (HI) listeners fused and perceptually averaged dichotic vowels presented through ...