Cochlear implants (CIs) have been developed to the point where they can restore hearing and speech understanding in a large proportion of patients. Although spatial hearing is central to controlling and directing attention and to enabling speech understanding in noisy environments, it has been largely neglected in the past. We propose here a multi-disciplinary research framework in which physicians, psychologists and engineers collaborate to improve spatial hearing for CI users.
@article{arxiv.2602.13787,
title = {Enhancing spatial hearing with cochlear implants: exploring the role of AI, multimodal interaction and perceptual training},
author = {Lorenzo Picinali and Robert Baumgartner and Valerie Gaveau and Antonino Greco and Stefanie Liebe and Paul Oomen and Christoph Braun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13787},
year = {2026}
}