The influence of clicks versus short tone bursts on the vestibular evoked myogenic potentials.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To undertake a systematic review of available evidence on the effect of hearing impairment and hearing aid amplification on listening effort. Two research questions were addressed: Q1) does hearing impairment affect listening effort? and Q2) can hearing aid amplification affect listening effort during speech...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Ohlenforst B,Zekveld AA,Jansma EP,Wang Y,Naylor G,Lorens A,Lunner T,Kramer SE

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Averaged electrode voltages (AEVs) provide an objective measure of the output of the Nucleus multichannel cochlear implant device. AEVs are the peak-to-peak voltages of each electrode in the internal array and are recorded from electrodes placed on the scalp. This article summarizes average voltage data for 25 childre...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Mahoney MJ,Proctor LA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elderly individuals often have more deficits in speech understanding than would be expected in younger individuals with the same degree of hearing loss. Such deficits may be attributed to the complex nature of age-related changes that occur throughout the central auditory nervous system and are generally referred to a...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Stach BA,Loiselle LH,Jerger JF

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:New tinnitus therapies are being developed and marketed that target the patient's tinnitus frequency. This frequency is estimated clinically by pitch matching, which has the patient identify the pure tone that is closest to the perceived tinnitus frequency. Though widely used, pitch matching is heavily criti...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McMillan GP,Thielman EJ,Wypych K,Henry JA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present experiment was to assess the consequences of cochlear implantation at different ages on the development of the human central auditory system. DESIGN:Our measure of the maturity of central auditory pathways was the latency of the P1 cortical auditory evoked potential. Because P1 latenci...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Sharma A,Dorman MF,Spahr AJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study was designed to assess the effects of noise on the intelligibility of speech elements used in the Callsign Acquisition Test (CAT), developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The CAT consists of 126 test items, or callsigns, each of which is made up of a two-syllable word selected from the 18-it...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Rao MD,Letowski T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between two dichotic listening tasks was studied. The two dichotic tests used were the Staggered Spondaic Word (SSW) test and the directed Dichotic Consonant-Vowel (CV) test. These measures were administered to 104 children between the ages of 6.0 and 8.0 yrs. The subjects were divided into two groups...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Harris VL,Keith RW,Novak KK

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study compared speech recognition performance on the Northwestern University Auditory Test No. 6 (NU-6) and the Connected Speech Test (CST) for three hearing aid circuits (peak clipping [PC], compression limiting [CL], and wide dynamic range compression [WDRC]) in adults with symmetrical sensorineural h...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Shanks JE,Wilson RH,Larson V,Williams D

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to present descriptive results from an audiometric examination of a male twin sample, compare the values with normative databases, and explore whether there are age differences in genetic and environmental contributions to variation in hearing. DESIGN:Audiometric and questionnair...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Karlsson KK,Harris JR,Svartengren M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to describe normal characteristics of distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) signal and noise level in a group of newborns and infants with normal hearing followed longitudinally from birth to 15 months of age. DESIGN:This is a prospective, longitudinal study of 231 in...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hunter LL,Blankenship CM,Keefe DH,Feeney MP,Brown DK,McCune A,Fitzpatrick DF,Lin L

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Multiple auditory steady state responses (ASSRs) will likely be included in the diagnostic test battery for estimating infant auditory thresholds in the near future; however, the effects of single- versus multiple-stimulus presentation in infants has never been investigated. In adults, there are no interacti...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hatton J,Stapells DR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A moderate-bandwidth master hearing aid was used to study the relationships among low-frequency response, syllable recognition scores, and perceived speech quality. As measured on KEMAR, this hearing aid provided true high-frequency emphasis in all conditions, with three degrees of relative low-frequency de-emphasis. ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Punch JL,Beck LB

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite the many studies on the associated risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events in patients with hypercholesterolemia (HCh), an association between HCh and the development of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) has been examined in only a few case-control studies. We tested the ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Chang SL,Hsieh CC,Tseng KS,Weng SF,Lin YS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Correct word recognition is generally determined by audibility, but lexical parameters also play a role. The focus of this study was to examine both the impact of audibility and lexical parameters on speech recognition of test words of the clinical German Freiburg monosyllabic speech test, and subsequently on...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Winkler A,Carroll R,Holube I

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The first objective was to examine factors that could be predictive of postoperative unilateral (cochlear implant alone) speech recognition ability in a group of subjects with greater degrees of preoperative acoustic hearing than has been previously examined. Second, the study aimed to identify factors predi...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Plant K,McDermott H,van Hoesel R,Dawson P,Cowan R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pure-tone thresholds for conventional and extended high frequencies were analyzed for 188 older adult human subjects (91 females, 97 males). The objectives were to study longitudinal changes in thresholds as well as the effects of initial threshold levels, age, gender, and noise history on these longitudinal ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Lee FS,Matthews LJ,Dubno JR,Mills JH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors undertook a review of the literature, focussing on publications describing the following: (1) Pure tone threshold data for adolescents/young adults; (2) Measurements/estimates of noise exposure from leisure activities; and (3) The relationship between hearing threshold levels (HTLs) and leisure-noise expos...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Carter L,Williams W,Black D,Bundy A

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred eighty-four deaf children were presented auditory, visual (speechreading), and combined stimuli. Some subjects showed an enhancement of their processing abilities in the combined mode, some demonstrated no improvement, and others yielded reduced scores. A method of data analysis is proposed which could con...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Holmes DW,Groccia B,Johnson K,Green W

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:1) To describe the auditory brain stem response (ABR) measurement system and optimized methods used for study of newborn hearing screening. 2) To determine how recording and infant factors related to the screening, using well-defined, specific ABR outcome measures. DESIGN:Seven thousand one hundred seventy-...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Sininger YS,Cone-Wesson B,Folsom RC,Gorga MP,Vohr BR,Widen JE,Ekelid M,Norton SJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Channel interaction, the stimulation of overlapping populations of auditory neurons by distinct cochlear implant (CI) channels, likely limits the speech perception performance of CI users. This study examined the role of vocoder-simulated channel interaction in the ability of children with normal hearing (cN...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Jahn KN,DiNino M,Arenberg JG

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the maximum stimulus levels at which a measured auditory steady-state response (ASSR) can be assumed to be a reliable measure of auditory thresholds. DESIGN:ASSR thresholds were measured at octave frequencies from 500 to 4000 Hz in 10 subjects with profound hearing loss. These subjects provided ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gorga MP,Neely ST,Hoover BM,Dierking DM,Beauchaine KL,Manning C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The main objective was to investigate age-related differences on the listening in spatialized noise-sentences (LiSN-S) test in adults with normal audiometric thresholds in most of the speech range. A second objective was to examine the contributions of auditory, cognitive, and linguistic abilities to LiSN-S ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Besser J,Festen JM,Goverts ST,Kramer SE,Pichora-Fuller MK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to analyze distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) level and signal to noise ratio in a group of infants from birth to 4 months of age to optimize prediction of hearing status. DPOAEs from infants with normal hearing (NH) and hearing loss (HL) were used to predict the pr...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Blankenship CM,Hunter LL,Keefe DH,Feeney MP,Brown DK,McCune A,Fitzpatrick DF,Lin L

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to compare the accuracy of sound-direction identification in the horizontal plane by bilateral cochlear implant users when localization was measured with pink noise and with speech stimuli. DESIGN:Eight adults who were bilateral users of Nucleus 24 Contour devices participated i...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Neuman AC,Haravon A,Sislian N,Waltzman SB

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to investigate the effects of reference microphone location on probe tube microphone measures of hearing aid response. The reference microphone of a clinical probe tube microphone system was located either at a position on the cheek (position A) or in close proximity to the microphone of...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Feigin JA,Barlow NL,Stelmachowicz PG

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments evaluated steady state and transient auditory evoked potentials (EPs) to tones that were sinusoidally modulated in frequency and to tones that alternated between two frequencies with a linear ramp. The steady state responses to sinusoidal FM were small and difficult to record at both the first and se...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Maiste A,Picton T

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coupler output levels were obtained for six repeated placements of a TDH-49 earphone in a P/N 51 cushion on a NBS 9A coupler and a B-71 and B-72 bone vibrator on a mechanical coupler from 250 to 4000 Hz using experienced (N = 9) and untrained subjects (N = 9) who were later trained. The largest minus the smallest coup...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Frank T,Chaffinch JO,Svitko CS

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulism poisoning results in a presynaptic failure of neuromuscular transmission, and may be expected to impair Eustachian tube and stapedius reflex function. The audiologic findings in five normal-hearing patients with type A botulism poisoning are presented. Results were varied. Two patients demonstrated type B or ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Pijl S

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the performance of cochlear implant patients and normal-hearing subjects on a musical interval labeling task, and to determine whether information regarding musical interval size is available to cochlear implant patients under realistic everyday listening conditions. DESIGN:Two Nucleus cochlear im...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Pijl S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory middle latency response (MLR) seems to have a relatively long developmental time course, extending through the first decade of life. Characteristics of each MLR component change developmentally not only with respect to waveform morphology but also with respect to response reliability, dependence on awaren...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McGee T,Kraus N

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00