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Study demonstrates significant listening advantages with Earlens hearing technology
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MENLO PARK, Calif., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A landmark study conducted by the world-renowned audiology team at The National Centre for Audiology at Western University in Ontario, Canada was just published in
Trends in Hearing.
The peer-reviewed study evaluated the benefit of the extended bandwidth of the Earlens direct contact hearing technology and found that the broader range of sound proved superior in all outcome measures, demonstrating clinically meaningful benefits for patients. Those benefits included the ability to:
Average Binaural Detection Thresholds for Frequency-Modulated Tones in Sound Field for All Participants (N¼15). Error bars indicated one standard deviation from the mean. Conditions include unaided listening versus listening with the direct drive hearing aid, programmed either with settings for use in a trial peri