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Other sounds can impede speech sounds, yet our brain typically has no problem repairing the broken messages. In individuals who lost their hearing but had it returned with bionic auditory prostheses called cochlear implants, we found that these repair abilities work worse than previously expected, even when we gave people additional context to help them.

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This is important because it helps us understand why background sounds and noise make hearing with a cochlear implant so difficult.

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This page is a summary of: Access to semantic cues does not lead to perceptual restoration of interrupted speech in cochlear-implant users, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, March 2021, Acoustical Society of America (ASA),
DOI: 10.1121/10.0003573.
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