CLARKE Jeanne

How to optimize the performance of a cochlear implant and a hearing aid in a patient with hearing loss?

Project status: closed

A number of people with hearing loss wear a cochlear implant in one ear and a hearing aid in the other. Jeanne Clarke is studying the interactions between these two devices to improve their joint performance.

Dr. Clarke’s project, supervised by Professor Olivier Macherey, is aimed at studying if and when these two types of information (electrical and acoustic) from the cochlear implant and the hearing aid fuse, and whether this fusion makes a positive impact on speech comprehension.

This research will enable people with hearing loss who wear both a cochlear implant and a hearing aid to better adjust their devices and optimize their joint performance.

Doctor Jeanne Clarke
Postdoctoral researcher
Laboratory of Mechanics and Acoustics (LMA), Marseille, France

Related scientific publication(s):

Martin Chavant, Alexis Hervais-Adelman, Olivier Macherey. Perceptual Learning of Vocoded Speech With and Without Contralateral Hearing: Implications for Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2021 Jan 14;64(1):196-205. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00385. Epub 2020 Dec 2.