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Although cochlear implants have been demonstrated to be effective surgical treatments for deafness, new implant users must undergo an intense period of perceptual learning and adaptation to learn to hear with their prosthesis. Few adult cochlear implant users receive any formal training following implantation, and as a result, the perceptual skills that they develop are highly variable. This study assessed the efficacy of the high variability online training program for adult cochlear implant users dubbed the HiVOlT-CI in 31 normal hearing individuals listening to cochlear implant simulations and three adult cochlear implant users. The goal of our interactive, adaptive, high-variability training program is to provide empirically-based, adaptive and interactive perceptual training to new cochlear implant users to help them adjust to their prosthesis. We also aim to develop a common set of robust and adaptive cognitive auditory skills in cochlear implant users that will help them to hear in real world situa...