Cochlear implant (CI) subject demographics.

A separate group of 6 CI subjects (CI24-CI29) were tested at the University of Tennessee to evaluate learning effects and test-retest reliability for the STM detection test. All testing procedures for these additional 6 CI subjects followed the regulations approved by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Institutional Review Board. These 6 CI subjects repeated the test and did two sets of six runs on separate days. Thresholds were determined by averaging the threshold from six runs.* subjects tested at the University of TennesseeSubjects labeled with asterisks (CI24-CI29) participated in the experiment where test-retest reliability for the STM detection test was examined.