 The benefit of bimodal hearing is having a cochlear implant on one side and a hearing aid on the other that work together to give information to the brain so that you can have better spatial hearing. I think medel cochlear implants are best for bimodal hearing because you have a hearing aid on one ear that uses natural hearing and you have a medel cochlear implant on the other ear that mimics natural hearing. Putting that information together allows the brain to fuse that information for complete integration and to use that in spatial hearing. Why is that important? Well, it means that you can understand where speech is coming from better, you can understand speech and noise better, and you can do all of this with less listening effort. And I should mention that because medel cochlear implants are designed to mimic natural hearing, you can use any hearing aid. It doesn't have to be a special hearing aid. Any hearing aid can be used to fuse together information with a medel cochlear implant for spatial hearing.