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## Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the benefits of bilateral implantation for bone-anchored hearing system (BAHS) users in terms of spatial resolution abilities and auditory memory for speech. ## Design: This is a prospective, single-center, comparative, single-blinded study where the listeners served as their own control. Twenty-four experienced bone-anchored users with a bilateral conductive or mixed hearing loss participated in the study. After fitting the listeners unilaterally and bilaterally with BAHS sound processor(s) (Ponto 3 SuperPower), spatial resolution was estimated by measuring the minimum audible angle (MAA) to achieve an 80% correct response via a two-alternative-forced choice task (right-left discrimination of noise bursts) in two conditions: both sound processors active (bilateral condition) and only one sound processor active (unilateral condition). In addition, a memory recall test, the Sentence-final Word Identification and Recall (SWIR) test was performed with five lists of seven sentences for each of the two conditions (unilateral and bilateral). Self-reported performance in everyday life with the listener’s own sound processors was als

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Author

William Brassington; Rosalyn Parker; Federica Bianchi

Publisher

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Neuroscience (Life Sciences)