Effects of release time and directionality on unilateral and bilateral hearing aid fittings in complex sound fields.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although newborn hearing screening programs have been introduced in most states in Australia, the prevalence of conductive hearing loss and middle ear pathology in the infants referred through these programs is not known. PURPOSE:This study was designed to (1) evaluate the prevalence of conductive hearing l...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Aithal S,Aithal V,Kei J,Driscoll C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The acoustic stapedial reflex (ASR) test provides useful information about the function of the auditory system. While it is frequently used with adults and children in a clinical setting, its use with young infants is limited. Presently, there are few data for neonates and inadequate research into the test-r...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Kei J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Before advanced noise-management features can be recommended for use in children with hearing loss, evidence regarding their ability to use these features to optimize speech perception is necessary. PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to examine the relation between children's preference for, and performa...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Pittman AL,Hiipakka MM

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many studies have reported the speech recognition benefits of a personal remote microphone system when used by adult listeners with hearing loss. The advance of wireless technology has allowed for many wireless audio transmission protocols. Some of these protocols interface with commercially available hearin...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Rodemerk KS,Galster JA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central deafness has been linked historically to bihemispheric involvement of the temporal lobe, with more recent findings suggesting that compromise of other cortical and subcortical structures can also result in this disorder. The present investigation extends our understanding of the potential anatomical correlates...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Musiek FE,Charette L,Morse D,Baran JA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loudness discomfort levels (LDLs) were measured in dB HL and SPL at discrete frequencies between 500 to 4000 Hz on 31 hearing-impaired ears using TDH-50P and ER-3A earphones. The results revealed no significant differences in the measured sound pressure level (SPL) between the two earphones at all test frequencies. Ho...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Valente M,Potts LG,Valente M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A model that can accurately predict speech intelligibility for a given hearing-impaired (HI) listener would be an important tool for hearing-aid fitting or hearing-aid algorithm development. Existing speech-intelligibility models do not incorporate variability in suprathreshold deficits that are not well pre...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Bernstein JG,Mehraei G,Shamma S,Gallun FJ,Theodoroff SM,Leek MR

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory training has long been advocated to enhance communication but has never been time or cost-effective. This article describes the concepts underlying the development of a home-based, interactive adaptive computer program designed to engage the adult hearing-impaired listener in the hearing-aid-fitting process, ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Sweetow RW,Sabes JH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binaural interaction component (BIC) of the auditory brainstem response (ABR) and BIC of the frequency-following response (FFR) to tonal stimuli were studied in normal-hearing adults. The ABR and BIC latencies from all subjects were consistently shorter to the click-like sound than to the 2.0 kHz tone burst. Incre...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Parthasarathy TK,Moushegian G

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tele-audiology provides a means to offer audiologic rehabilitation (AR) in a cost-, resource-, and time-effective manner. If designed appropriately, it also has the capability of personalizing rehabilitation to the user in terms of content, depth of detail, etc., thus permitting selection of the best content...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Saunders GH,Chisolm TH

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Difficulty understanding speech in background noise is a common complaint of individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. Recent animal studies suggest this difficulty may be due, in part, to spiral ganglion cell degeneration related to aging or noise exposure. Although auditory brainstem response (ABR) thre...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Bramhall N,Ong B,Ko J,Parker M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-ear sound pressure levels (SPLs) were compared among three methods used for positioning a probe microphone in the ear canal. The probe insertion techniques included (1) an acoustic method that incorporates use of the quarter-wave anti-resonance property of the ear to determine acoustically the location of the pro...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Dirks DD,Ahlstrom JB,Eisenberg LS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss is the most common of all disabilities in China, with three million of the 1.4 billion population affected. Recently, the release of an official neonatal hearing screening consensus has drawn attention to the importance of continued surveillance throughout childhood and the need for a system that is suite...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Bu X,Li X,Driscoll C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six parents of 106 children (34% response rate) born between March 2000 and February 2003 retrospectively completed the "Probe of Parents' Perceptions: An Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Outcome Measure" (PPP) assessing their participation in an emerging community-based newborn hearing screening...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Danhauer JL,Johnson CE

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sentence understanding scores for patients with cochlear implants (CIs) when tested in quiet are relatively high. However, sentence understanding scores for patients with CIs plummet with the addition of noise. PURPOSE:To assess, for patients with CIs (MED-EL), (1) the value to speech understanding of two n...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Dorman MF,Natale S,Loiselle L

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We recently described a research study in which age-related changes in interaural asymmetry were elicited using the N400 of the auditory event-related potentials (AERP) (Davis et al, 2013). The N400 was the primary focus due to its sensitivity to various aspects of semantic processing (Kutas and Hillyard, 19...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Davis TM,Jerger J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of dichotic chords (free recall and directed recall), nonsense syllables (CVs), and three-pair digits was assessed on 24 musicians and 24 nonmusicians. On the dichotic-CV and dichotic-digit free-recall tasks, there was a significant right-ear advantage, but there were no group differences. With the dichotic...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Nelson MD,Wilson RH,Kornhass S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Words-in-Noise (WIN) test uses monosyllabic words in seven signal-to-noise ratios of multitalker babble (MTB) to evaluate the ability of individuals to understand speech in background noise. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the criterion validity of the WIN by comparing recognition performances under MTB ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Wilson RH,Carnell CS,Cleghorn AL

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complex working memory (WM) span tasks have been shown to predict speech-in-noise (SIN) recognition. Studies of complex WM span tasks suggest that, rather than indexing a single cognitive process, performance on such tasks may be governed by separate cognitive subprocesses embedded within WM. Previous resear...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Ellis RJ,Rönnberg J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turner syndrome is among the more common but less familiar syndromes that include sensorineural hearing loss and middle ear disease. This article provides a review of the syndrome, an illustrative case, and a review of specific issues relevant to audiologic management of patients with Turner syndrome. ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Roush J,Davenport ML,Carlson-Smith C

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with auditory processing disorders (APD) are described to have a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) difficulty. Frequency-modulated (FM) systems have been reported to improve this situation. Yet the use of personal amplification that may be more portable has not been attempted. PURPOSE:To determine whethe...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Kuk F,Jackson A,Keenan D,Lau CC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous research has shown that hearing aid wearers can successfully self-train their instruments' gain-frequency response and compression parameters in everyday situations. Combining hearing aids with a smartphone introduces additional computing power, memory, and a graphical user interface that may enable...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Aldaz G,Puria S,Leifer LJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balance Function test data alone cannot capture the reaction that a patient has to balance system disease. The present investigation examined the relations among components of the balance function examination (electronystagmography, rotational testing, and platform posturography) and self-perceived dizziness handicap,...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Jacobson GP,Newman CW,Hunter L,Balzer GK

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The bilateral contralateral routing of signals (BICROS) system has provided limited benefit for speech recognition in noise for patients with asymmetric sensorineural hearing loss, even when an automatic adaptive multichannel directional microphone (DM) is in the receiver (Rx) and an omnidirectional micropho...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Valente M,Oeding K

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal and dyslexic right-handed children were assessed with three dichotic listening tests, the Dichotic Digits test, the Competing Words subtest of the SCAN, and the Dichotic Consonant-Vowel test. Performance was measured as both number and percentage of correct responses in the right and left ears. Laterality was d...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Moncrieff DW,Musiek FE

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A speech test evaluation and presentation system is described. The test presentation subsystem has the flexibility and speed of live-voice testing while using recorded test materials. The speech test evaluation subsystem compares an individual subject's test performance on a monosyllabic word test with that of an aver...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Studebaker GA,Gray GA,Branch WE

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation was conducted to help determine whether source activity of the direct recorded N1 response differed from that of the gamma band response (GBR). Auditory evoked cortical potential data from two patients with intractable epilepsy undergoing prolonged video EEG monitoring after implantation of s...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Jacobson GP,Henderson J,Smith BJ,Elisevich KV

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cognitive test battery sensitive to processes important for speech understanding was developed and investigated. Test stimuli are presented as text or in an auditory or audiovisual modality. The tests investigate phonologic processing and verbal information processing. Four subject groups, young/elderly with normal-...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Hällgren M,Larsby B,Lyxell B,Arlinger S

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory processing disorder (APD) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) present overlapping symptomatology. Previous research has demonstrated that professionals use different behavioral descriptors to characterize APD and ADHD combined and predominantly hyperactive-impulsive subtypes, which present wit...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Chermak GD,Tucker E,Seikel JA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Four Alternative Auditory Feature test (FAAF) is a word-based closed-set speech recognition test. Because the original test materials were recorded in British English dialect, it is not appropriate for use in the United States. PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to produce an American dialect FAAF (A...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Xu J,Cox RM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00