Abstract
The normal binaural auditory system provides the listener with a “spatial filter bank” that facilitates the detection, localization, and monitoring of acoustic sources and improves the understanding of speech in noisy environments. Since impairments often degrade binaural capabilities, it clearly is important to characterize and understand these degradations and to develop hearing aids that compensate for them. In the first portion of the talk, we present an analytic summary of normal binaural advantages. Next, we review past work on the effects of conductive and sensorineural impairments on binaural capabilities. Finally, we consider some results on the effects of hearing aids on these capabilites and some approaches to the problem of providing binaural benefits to the hearing impaired. [Work supported by NIH.]
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