Noise levels in physicians' offices.

abstract：:Acoustic reflex threshold and magnitude were measured for normal-hearing subjects in four experiments under conditions of: (1) tight and relaxed eyelid closure; (2) eyes open and closed in light, focusing on a spot, reading, and solving a visual maze; (3) tactile stimulation; and (4) performing a mental task. Measurem...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Robinette MS,Snyder KS

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cochlear implantation (CI) in subjects with unilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss was investigated. The authors of the present study demonstrated the binaural auditory outcomes in a 12- and 36-month prospective cohort outcome study. The present study aimed to do a long-term (LT) evaluation of the ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Mertens G,De Bodt M,Van de Heyning P

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Auditory temporal processing frequently appears more affected in old subjects than would be predicted by the degree of peripheral hearing loss, pointing to an age-dependent central processing deficit. In parallel, an age-dependent decline of inhibitory function has been demonstrated in the auditory pathway, ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gleich O,Strutz J

更新日期：2011-11-01 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:There are no nationally representative hearing loss (HL) prevalence data available for Canadian youth using direct measurements. The present study objectives were to estimate national prevalence of HL using audiometric pure-tone thresholds (0.5 to 8 kHz) and or distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Feder KP,Michaud D,McNamee J,Fitzpatrick E,Ramage-Morin P,Beauregard Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pediatric vestibular evaluations incorporate cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential (c- and oVEMP, respectively) testing; however, in children, c- and oVEMP thresholds have been minimally investigated and frequency tuning is unknown. Children are also at risk for unsafe sound exposure secon...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Rodriguez AI,Thomas MLA,Janky KL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common element of the psychophysiological research on listening effort is the focus on listening demand as determinant of effort. The article discusses preceding studies and theorizing on effort to show that the link between listening demand and listening effort is moderated by various variables. Moreover, I will pr...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Richter M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether tympanic membrane (TM) electrodes induce behavioral pure-tone threshold shifts. DESIGN:Pure-tone thresholds (250 to 8000 Hz) were measured twice in test (n = 18) and control (n = 10) groups. TM electrodes were placed between first and second threshold measurements in the test group, wher...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Smith SB,Lichtenhan J,Cone B

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study investigated factors contributing to the comprehension and production of English language by children with prelingual deafness after 4 to 7 yr of multichannel cochlear implant use. The analysis controlled for the effects of child and family characteristics so that educational factors most conducive...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Geers AE,Nicholas JG,Sedey AL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The ability of a treatment method to interfere with tinnitus-related neural activity patterns, such as cortical gamma rhythms, has been suggested to indicate its potential in relieving tinnitus. Therapeutic modulation of gamma-band oscillations with vagus nerve stimulation has been recently reported in epile...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hyvärinen P,Yrttiaho S,Lehtimäki J,Ilmoniemi RJ,Mäkitie A,Ylikoski J,Mäkelä JP,Aarnisalo AA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was regarding sensory and cognitive interactions in older adults published since 2009, the approximate date of the most recent reviews on this topic. After an electronic database search of articles published in English since 2009 on measures of hearing and cognition or vision and cognition ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Humes LE,Young LA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a digitally controlled adaptive filter, ongoing detection and spectral analysis of quasi steady state noise are performed, and analog filter parameters are adjusted to provide greatest attenuation in frequency regions where noise energy is greatest. Attenuation introduced by the filter affects both speech and noise...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： van Tasell DJ,Larsen SY,Fabry DA

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To determine the ototoxicity detection rate (sensitivity) for distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) testing in adults who received ototoxic medications and experienced pure-tone threshold changes during the course of treatment; (2) to determine the extent to which DPOAE sensitivity to ototoxi...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Reavis KM,Phillips DS,Fausti SA,Gordon JS,Helt WJ,Wilmington D,Bratt GW,Konrad-Martin D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study tested the hypothesis that undetected peripheral hearing impairment occurs in children with idiopathic listening difficulties (LiDs), as reported by caregivers using the Evaluation of Children"s Listening and Processing Skills (ECLiPS) validated questionnaire, compared with children with typically...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hunter LL,Blankenship CM,Lin L,Sloat NT,Perdew A,Stewart H,Moore DR

更新日期：2020-06-25 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：OBJECTIVE:The present investigation was designed to provide information to facilitate the decision of whether a child should continue using digital signal processing (DSP) hearing aids with wide dynamic range compression (WDRC) or be recommended for a cochlear implant, based on the unaided pure-tone average (PTA at 500...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Davidson LS

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the association between hearing impairment and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in an older population, using the self-administered 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). DESIGN:Participants of the Blue Mountains Hearing Study (BMHS, N = 2956) attended a comprehensive interview and hearin...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Chia EM,Wang JJ,Rochtchina E,Cumming RR,Newall P,Mitchell P

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study examined joint engagement and emotional availability of parent-child interactions for toddlers with moderate hearing loss (MHL) compared with toddlers with normal hearing (NH) and in relation to children's language abilities. DESIGN:The participants in this study were 25 children with MHL (40 to ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dirks E,Rieffe C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Previous studies have documented the benefits of bimodal hearing as compared with a cochlear implant alone, but most have focused on the importance of bottom-up, low-frequency cues. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the role of top-down processing in bimodal hearing by measuring the effect of ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Oh SH,Donaldson GS,Kong YY

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to compare outcomes in the domain of self-reported hearing handicap across groups of patients fit with one versus two cochlear implants (CI, CI + CI), or with an implant and a hearing aid (HA) in the nonimplanted ear (CI + HA). DESIGN:The design was retrospective, and a preliminary step was to fa...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Noble W,Tyler R,Dunn C,Bhullar N

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ipsilateral and contralateral auditory brain stem responses were recorded from both ears of 10 neonates between 37 and 43 weeks from conception with normal auditory brain stem function. The most prominent component of the contralateral response was a forehead positive deflection occurring 0.3 millisecond before the ip...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Edwards CG,Durieux-Smith A,Picton TW

更新日期：1985-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to review the literature regarding human noise-induced permanent threshold shift and to determine whether the observed data agreed with the predictions of two different exchange rates (ERs). DESIGN:An initial list of possibly relevant studies included those cited by authors who endo...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dobie RA,Clark WW

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Previous research suggests that young children have significant difficulty recognizing speech in the presence of background noise as compared with older children and adults. However, limited research exists that examines the developmental effects of speech recognition in noise in separate age groups of young...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Schafer EC,Beeler S,Ramos H,Morais M,Monzingo J,Algier K

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Recent studies indicate that high-frequency amplification may provide little benefit for listeners with moderate-to-severe high-frequency hearing loss, and may even reduce speech recognition. Moore and colleagues have proposed a direct link between this lack of benefit and the presence of regions of nonfuncti...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Summers V,Molis MR,Müsch H,Walden BE,Surr RK,Cord MT

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course for reacquisition of spondee word recognition was examined for 27 patients who use the Ineraid cochlear implant. At 1 month postfitting, test scores ranged from 0 to 84% correct. The median score was 10% correct. At 22 to 28 months postfitting, the scores ranged from 0 to 100% correct. The median score...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dorman MF,Dankowski K,McCandless G,Parkin JL,Smith L

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this four-site clinical trial, we evaluated whether tinnitus masking (TM) and tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) decreased tinnitus severity more than the two control groups: an attention-control group that received tinnitus educational counseling (and hearing aids if needed; TED), and a 6-month-wait-list ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Henry JA,Stewart BJ,Griest S,Kaelin C,Zaugg TL,Carlson K

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00