Psychophysiological therapy for tinnitus.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to characterize horizontal plane sound localization in interfering noise at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) and to compare performance across normal-hearing listeners and users of unilateral and bilateral cochlear implants (CIs). CI users report difficulties with listening in noisy e...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Kerber S,Seeber BU

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The first objective of this study was to compare the predicted audiometric thresholds obtained by auditory steady state response (ASSR) and auditory brainstem response (ABR) in infants and toddlers when both techniques use optimal stimuli and detection algorithms. This information will aid in determining the...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Sininger YS,Hunter LL,Hayes D,Roush PA,Uhler KM

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：: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：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether the use of visual feedback of tonic electromyographic (EMG) activity, or the use of amplitude normalization techniques would reduce significantly the variability in cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP) P13-N23 interaural amplitude as...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McCaslin DL,Jacobson GP,Hatton K,Fowler AP,DeLong AP

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：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:To report the patient's characteristics, preoperative audiological profiles, surgical outcomes, and postoperative performance for children with auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) who ultimately received cochlear implants (CIs). DESIGN:Prospective, longitudinal study of children with ANSD who receiv...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Teagle HF,Roush PA,Woodard JS,Hatch DR,Zdanski CJ,Buss E,Buchman CA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A sum of simultaneous pure tones with harmonic relationships (i.e., simple frequency ratios) is normally heard as a single sound, with a single pitch, even when its components are fully resolved in the auditory periphery. This perceptual phenomenon called "harmonic fusion" is thought to play an important rol...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Bonnard D,Dauman R,Semal C,Demany L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Lexical tone information provides redundant cues for the recognition of Mandarin sentences in listeners with normal hearing in quiet conditions. The contribution of lexical tones to Mandarin sentence recognition in listeners with hearing aids (HAs) is unclear. This study aimed to remove lexical tone informat...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Chen Y,Wong LLN,Qian J,Kuehnel V,Christina Voss S,Chen F

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The goal of this study was to evaluate how digital noise reduction (DNR) impacts listening effort and judgment of sound clarity in children with normal hearing. It was hypothesized that when two DNR algorithms differing in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) output are compared, the algorithm that provides the great...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gustafson S,McCreery R,Hoover B,Kopun JG,Stelmachowicz P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to remove cochlear implants from children and subsequently reimplant a more complex device in the same ear was the concern of this single case study. A postlinguistically deafened child, J.L., received a single-channel cochlear implant 1 yr after contracting meningitis and suffering a profound bilateral se...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Chute PM,Hellman SA,Parisier SC,Tartter VC,Economou A

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to investigate morphologic differences in the ABR as a result of reversing the stimulus polarity of frequency-limited single-cycle stimuli in normal-hearing subjects. The results clearly demonstrate that large latency differences occur between condensation and rarefaction stimuli for low-frequ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Orlando MS,Folsom RC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether female subjects who had balanced hormonal profiles and who were experiencing the characteristic fluctuation in estrogen and progesterone levels exhibited changes in auditory function unlike subjects who were using a low-dose combined estrogen and progesterone steroid. Threshold data at 500,...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Cox JR

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The primary goal of this study was to examine changes that may occur in electrode impedance, electrically evoked compound action potential (EAP) threshold and slope of the EAP growth function, and behavioral measures of threshold T-level) and maximum comfort (C-level) over time in both adult and child cochlea...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hughes ML,Vander Werff KR,Brown CJ,Abbas PJ,Kelsay DM,Teagle HF,Lowder MW

更新日期：2001-12-01 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:The aim of the study was to investigate the link between temporal fine structure (TFS) processing, pitch, and speech perception performance in adult cochlear implant (CI) recipients, including bimodal listeners who may benefit better low-frequency (LF) temporal coding in the contralateral ear. DESIGN:The st...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dincer D'Alessandro H,Ballantyne D,Boyle PJ,De Seta E,DeVincentiis M,Mancini P

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The main objective was to investigate whether the broadening and narrowing of formant bandwidths had a significant effect on the identification of vowels often confused by Nucleus cochlear implant recipients using the Spectral Peak (SPEAK) speech coding strategy. Specifically, identification performance for s...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hawks JW,Fourakis MS,Skinner MW,Holden TA,Holden LK

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Here, we evaluate the risks of amplified music for disc-jockeys (DJs) working in nightclubs. DESIGN:Sound level measurements were performed within the DJ mixing booths. A questionnaire was used to obtain exposure to noise and length of time in the profession. Audiograms and tinnitus pitch matching was also ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Potier M,Hoquet C,Lloyd R,Nicolas-Puel C,Uziel A,Puel JL

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spatial release from masking (SRM) can increase speech intelligibility in complex listening environments. The goal of the present study was to document how speech-in-speech stimuli could be best processed to encourage optimum SRM for listeners who represent a range of ages and amounts of hearing loss. We exam...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Jakien KM,Kampel SD,Gordon SY,Gallun FJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews research on the relatively recently discovered event-related potential component, the mismatch negativity (MMN), which is of great potential interest for understanding central auditory function and various forms of its pathology. This change-specific response can serve as an accurate objective mea...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Näätänen R

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Diet may affect susceptibility of the inner ear to noise and age-related effects that lead to tinnitus and hearing loss. This study used complementary single nutrient and dietary pattern analysis based on statistical grouping of usual dietary intake in a cross-sectional analysis of tinnitus and hearing diffi...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dawes P,Cruickshanks KJ,Marsden A,Moore DR,Munro KJ

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis is presented of the detectability of the two types of otoacoustic emissions being considered for use in clinical tests of hearing. It is estimated that, for equal emission levels and equal probability of error, measurement of distortion-product emissions can be made at least 30 times faster than transient-...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Zurek PM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to characterize auditory function in patients diagnosed with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS). DESIGN:Eighteen patients with PTLDS were evaluated and compared to a normal population. Evaluations consisted of pure tone and speech thresholds, word recognition (WRS), ac...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Shotland LI,Mastrioanni MA,Choo DL,Szymko-Bennett YM,Dally LG,Pikus AT,Sledjeski K,Marques A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Click and galvanic stimulations of vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (c-VEMP and g-VEMP) were applied to measure the interaural difference (IAD) of saccular responses in patients with acute low-tone sensorineural hearing loss (ALHL). This study intended to explore the relationship between saccular asymmetr...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Wang CT,Fang KM,Young YH,Cheng PW

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：OBJECTIVES:This study tested listeners with a cochlear implant (CI) in one ear and acoustic hearing in the other ear, to assess their ability to localize sound and to understand speech in collocated or spatially separated noise or speech maskers. DESIGN:Eight CI listeners with contralateral acoustic hearing ranging fr...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dirks C,Nelson PB,Sladen DP,Oxenham AJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical auditory brain stem response latency measures are conventionally evaluated for abnormality by reference to normative laboratory values in standard deviation units. This note suggests that the directionality of the test hypothesis should be considered when the clinical ABR is evaluated for abnormality at a pre...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Sklare DA

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to compare speech recognition across a sampling of amplification choices available for listeners with severe loss. This includes conventional options (linear with peak clipping and linear with compression limiting) and newer strategies (multichannel wide-dynamic range compressi...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Souza PE,Jenstad LM,Folino R

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate a technique for objectively calibrating bone conductors on an individual basis using distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs). DESIGN:Individual calibrations were obtained using DPOAEs recorded from a single ear of 21 normally hearing adults. Validity and robustness of the technique w...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Purcell D,Kunov H,Cleghorn W

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00