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There were 11 cochlear implant users (age 18\u201361 years old) who had preserved low-frequency hearing in the implanted ear; they had a normal hearing or mild hearing loss in the contralateral ear. Patients were tested with monosyllabic words, under different spatial locations of speech and noise and with the cochlear implant activated and deactivated, in two listening configurations\u2014one in which low frequencies in the implanted ear were masked and another in which they were unmasked. We also investigated how cochlear implant benefit due to binaural integration depended on unaided sound localization ability. Patients benefited from the binaural integration effects of redundancy and squelch only in the unmasked condition. Pearson correlations between binaural integration effects and unaided sound localization error showed significance only for squelch (r = \u22120.67; p = 0.02). Hearing preservation after cochlear implantation has considerable benefits because the preserved low-frequency hearing in the implanted ear contributes to binaural integration, presumably through the preserved temporal fine structure.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/life11030265","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,23]],"date-time":"2021-03-23T14:08:16Z","timestamp":1616508496000},"page":"265","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Benefits of Binaural Integration in Cochlear Implant Patients with Single-Sided Deafness and Residual Hearing in the Implanted Ear"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Artur","family":"Lorens","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"World Hearing Center, Implant and Auditory Perception Department, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, 02-042 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anita","family":"Obrycka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"World Hearing Center, Implant and Auditory Perception Department, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, 02-042 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4978-1915","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Piotr Henryk","family":"Skarzynski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"World Hearing Center, Teleaudiology and Screening Examination Department, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, 02-042 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7141-9851","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Henryk","family":"Skarzynski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"World Hearing Center, Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Clinic, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, 02-042 Warsaw, Poland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"153","DOI":"10.1080\/00016489.2018.1535190","article-title":"Binaural advantages in using a cochlear implant for adults with profound unilateral hearing loss","volume":"139","author":"Lorens","year":"2019","journal-title":"Acta Otolaryngol."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"430","DOI":"10.1097\/MAO.0000000000000707","article-title":"The impact of cochlear implantation on speech understanding, subjective hearing performance, and tinnitus perception in patients with unilateral severe to profound hearing loss","volume":"36","author":"Marino","year":"2015","journal-title":"Otol. 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