Sensory-Cognitive Interactions in Older Adults.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The main objective of this study is to determine whether chronic sound deprivation leads to poorer speech discrimination in humans. DESIGN:We reviewed the audiologic profile of 240 patients presenting normal and symmetrical bone conduction thresholds bilaterally, associated with either an acute or chronic u...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Okada M,Welling DB,Liberman MC,Maison SF

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We report on the ability of patients fit with bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) to distinguish the front-back location of sound sources both with and without head movements. At issue was (i) whether CI patients are more prone to front-back confusions than normal hearing listeners for wideband, high-frequency...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Pastore MT,Natale SJ,Yost WA,Dorman MF

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies were performed in which hearing-impaired subjects responded to the Connected Speech Test (CST). In experiment 1, 40 subjects, divided into four groups according to extent and configuration of hearing loss, responded to the CST version 1 (CSTv1). This version of the test consisted of 57 passages of connecte...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Cox RM,Alexander GC,Gilmore C,Pusakulich KM

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：: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:Current Joint Committee on Infant Hearing guidelines recommend the use of transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs) as a screening tool to identify hearing loss for newborns cared for in the well-baby nursery. Newborns who do not pass the TEOAE screen before leaving the hospital are typically rescreened...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Prieve BA,Hancur-Bucci CA,Preston JL

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although directional microphones on a hearing aid provide a signal-to-noise ratio benefit in a noisy background, the amount of benefit is dependent on how close the signal of interest is to the front of the user. It is assumed that when the signal of interest is off-axis, users can reorient themselves to the...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Brimijoin WO,Whitmer WM,McShefferty D,Akeroyd MA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:At a minimum, unilateral hearing loss (UHL) impairs sound localization ability and understanding speech in noisy environments, particularly if the loss is severe to profound. Accompanying the numerous negative consequences of UHL is considerable unexplained individual variability in the magnitude of its effe...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Firszt JB,Reeder RM,Holden LK

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper will provide a backdrop to the others in this section on outcomes of children with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss. Our objective here is to provide an overview of the research approaches used to study the outcomes of these children to provide guidance for future studies of children with mild to...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Tomblin B,Hebbeler K

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between noise exposure history, type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM), and suprathreshold measures of auditory function. DESIGN:A cross-sectional study was conducted; 20 normal-hearing participants without type 1 DM were matched on age and sex to 20 normal-h...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Spankovich C,Le Prell CG,Lobarinas E,Hood LJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVE:This study compares the musical perception of 17 adult recipients of the Nucleus cochlear implant using two different formant extraction processing strategies (F0F1F2 and MPEAK). DESIGN:Over a 12 mo period, participants were alternately switched between two strategies every 3 mo. Performance was evaluated us...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gfeller K,Woodworth G,Robin DA,Witt S,Knutson JF

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to evaluate performance stability with test-retest measures of electrical thresholds, electrical maximum acceptable loudness levels, sound-field thresholds, and audition-only speech tests. The hypothesis was that the standard error of measurement differs from one individual to another ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Skinner MW,Holden LK,Demorest ME,Holden TA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:During the earlier years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, initial reports described sensorineural hearing loss in up to 49% of individuals with HIV/AIDS. During those years, patients commonly progressed to advanced stages of HIV disease and frequently had neurological complications. However, the abnormalities on pu...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Luque AE,Orlando MS,Leong UC,Allen PD,Guido JJ,Yang H,Wu H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Using a longitudinal design, the present study sought to substantiate indications from two previous cross-sectional studies that hearing aid (HA) experience leads to improved speech processing abilities as quantified using eye-gaze measurements. Another aim was to explore potential concomitant changes in eve...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Habicht J,Finke M,Neher T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to examine the quantity of adult words, adult-child conversational turns, and electronic media in the auditory environments of toddlers who are hard of hearing (HH) and to examine whether these factors contributed to variability in children's communication outcomes. DESIGN:...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Ambrose SE,VanDam M,Moeller MP

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The present study was aimed to examine the relationship between psychophysical performance in temporal and spectral resolution and Mandarin tone recognition in noise by cochlear-implant (CI) listeners. DESIGN:Seventeen Nucleus-24 implant users, 10 postlingually deafened and 7 prelingually deafened, participa...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Wei C,Cao K,Jin X,Chen X,Zeng FG

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Growing evidence suggests that children who are deaf and use cochlear implants (CIs) can communicate effectively using spoken language. Research has reported that age of implantation and length of experience with the CI play an important role in a predicting a child's linguistic development. In recent years,...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hess C,Zettler-Greeley C,Godar SP,Ellis-Weismer S,Litovsky RY

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In a cross-sectional study of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults, the authors showed lower distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) in HIV+ individuals compared with controls as well as findings consistent with a central auditory processing deficit in HIV+ adults on antiretroviral th...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Maro II,Fellows AM,Clavier OH,Gui J,Rieke CC,Wilbur JC,Chambers RD,Jastrzembski BG,Mascari JE,Bakari M,Matee M,Musiek FE,Waddell RD,von Reyn CF,Palumbo PE,Moshi N,Buckey JC

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hearing status of 20 individuals with Pierre Robin Sequence (micrognathia, cleft palate, and glossoptosis leading to respiratory distress and feeding difficulty) was examined and compared to a sample exhibiting only isolated cleft palate. The results indicate that there is no difference in the prevalence or degree...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gould HJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether (1) the auditory N1 component can be elicited to gaps in continuous narrowband noises, (2) psychophysical and electrophysiological gap thresholds (PGTs and EGTs) are similar to one another, and (3) EGTs are the same for all narrowband noise center frequencies. DESIGN:PGTs and EGTs were ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Atcherson SR,Gould HJ,Mendel MI,Ethington CA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The level-dependent growth of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) provides an indirect metric of cochlear compressive nonlinearity. Recent evidence suggests that aging reduces nonlinear distortion emissions more than those associated with linear reflection. Therefore, in this study, we generate...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Ortmann AJ,Abdala C

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study completed an evidence-based practice systematic review of the nonacoustic benefits for adult patients receiving bone-anchored hearing aid(s) (BAHAs) relative to other forms of amplification (i.e., none, bone-conduction hearing aids [BCHAs], or air-conduction hearing aids [ACHAs]). DESIGN:Systemati...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Johnson CE,Danhauer JL,Reith AC,Latiolais LN

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cochlear implant patients have difficulty in noisy environments, in part, because of channel interaction. Interleaving the signal by sending every other channel to the opposite ear has the potential to reduce channel interaction by increasing the space between channels in each ear. Interleaving still potentia...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Aronoff JM,Stelmach J,Padilla M,Landsberger DM

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The effects of directing, switching, and misdirecting auditory spatial attention in a complex listening situation were investigated in 8 younger and 8 older listeners with normal-hearing sensitivity below 4 kHz. DESIGN:In two companion experiments, a target sentence was presented from one spatial location a...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Singh G,Pichora-Fuller MK,Schneider BA

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the additional perceptual benefit provided to children through the use of two cochlear implants in comparison to one after 6 to 13 mo experience with sequential bilateral implants. DESIGN:A second cochlear implant was received by 11 children. The principal selection criteria were being age 4 to 1...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Galvin KL,Mok M,Dowell RC

更新日期：2007-08-01 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