Improvement of Adult BTE Hearing Aid Wearers' Front/Back Localization Performance Using Digital Pinna-Cue Preserving Technologies: An Evidence-Based Review
Korean Journal of Audiology
Xu, J., & Han, W. (2014).
Korean Journal of Audiology, 18(3), 97-104.
This systematic review investigates the effects of behind-the-ear hearing aids with pinna-cue preserving technologies on discrimination and localization in adults with mild to severe hearing loss.
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Peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed studies (not further specified)
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Pinna-cue preserving technologies (PPT) "could yield a substantial reduction in front/back confusion for adult hearing aid users when those users were evaluated in laboratories" (p. 103). While the advantages of using PPT in the real world were limited, "some hearing aid users could potentially benefit from using PPT to improve their front/back sound discrimination performance" (p. 103).
