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.

翻译：人工耳蜗（CIs）的发展已能使大部分患者恢复听力和言语理解能力。尽管空间听觉对于控制和引导注意力以及在嘈杂环境中实现言语理解至关重要，但过去对此关注甚少。本文提出一个多学科研究框架，旨在通过医师、心理学家和工程师的协作，改善人工耳蜗使用者的空间听觉能力。