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Individuals with monaural hearing experience disadvantages compared with normal hearing counterparts because of the loss of the head shadow effect, the squelch effect, and binaural summation. In this study the Minimum Speech Test Battery (MSTB), a battery designed to document word recognition in bilaterally hearing impaired cochlear implant candidates, was administered to unilaterally hearing-impaired and normal hearing subjects to study its possible use in measuring hearing difficulty in monaural subjects.
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