Consonant recognition and confusion patterns among elderly hearing-impaired subjects.

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：OBJECTIVES:Work in normal-hearing (NH) adults suggests that spoken language processing involves coping with ambiguity. Even a clearly spoken word contains brief periods of ambiguity as it unfolds over time, and early portions will not be sufficient to uniquely identify the word. However, beyond this temporary ambiguity...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McMurray B,Ellis TP,Apfelbaum KS

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purposes of this study were to (a) examine the accuracy of cochlear implant recipients who use different types of devices and signal processing strategies on pitch ranking as a function of size of interval and frequency range and (b) to examine the relations between this pitch perception measure and demog...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gfeller K,Turner C,Oleson J,Zhang X,Gantz B,Froman R,Olszewski C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess discrimination of lexical stress pattern in infants with cochlear implant (CI) compared with infants with normal hearing (NH). While criteria for cochlear implantation have expanded to infants as young as 6 months, little is known regarding infants' processing of suprasegmental-prosodic cues which ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Segal O,Houston D,Kishon-Rabin L

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The primary purpose of this study was to determine the distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) and noise response characteristics in a large sample of older adults. Another purpose was to evaluate how specific absolute DPOAE levels or DPOAE/Noise ratios differentiated hearing status in these individua...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Torre P 3rd,Cruickshanks KJ,Nondahl DM,Wiley TL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:While the cochlear implant provides many deaf patients with good speech understanding in quiet, music perception and appreciation with the cochlear implant remains a major challenge for most cochlear implant users. The present study investigated whether a closed-set melodic contour identification (MCI) task c...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Galvin JJ 3rd,Fu QJ,Nogaki G

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:A case is presented of a patient with lateral pontine stroke which resulted in a moderate unilateral sensorineural hearing loss. ABR, word recognition scores, acoustic reflexes, neurological evaluation, and CT scan were consistent with brain stem lesion. Recovery of hearing, including acoustic reflexes and word recogn...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Bales JD

更新日期：1989-04-01 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:Preliminary evidence suggests that children with hearing loss experience elevated levels of chronic fatigue compared with children with normal hearing. Chronic fatigue is associated with decreased academic performance in many clinical populations. Children with cochlear implants as a group exhibit deficits i...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Werfel KL,Hendricks AE

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Recent animal studies suggest that noise-induced synaptopathy may underlie a phenomenon that has been labeled hidden hearing loss (HHL). Noise exposure preferentially damages low spontaneous-rate auditory nerve fibers, which are involved in the processing of moderate- to high-level sounds and are more resist...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Ridley CL,Kopun JG,Neely ST,Gorga MP,Rasetshwane DM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing conservation programs (HCPs) mandated by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cost about $350/worker/year. Are they cost-effective? A cross-sectional model of the US adult population with and without HCPs incorporates (1) the American Medical Association's method for estimating binaural ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dobie RA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to develop a method for acoustically measuring the ipsilateral acoustic stapedius reflex threshold by using wideband shifts in energy reflectance and admittance. DESIGN:A group of 27 young adult subjects with normal hearing participated in the study. Contralateral reflex thresho...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Feeney MP,Keefe DH,Sanford CA

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Early-deafened, late-implanted adolescents and adults constitute a unique group of cochlear implant (CI) users, showing a large variability in outcomes. The current systematic review aimed to determine which preimplantation factors are relevant in predicting postoperative outcomes in this patient group. DES...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Debruyne JA,Janssen AM,Brokx JPL

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:In bilateral cochlear implant users, electrodes mapped to the same frequency range in each ear may stimulate different places in each cochlea due to an insertion depth difference of electrode arrays. This interaural place of stimulation mismatch can lead to problems with auditory image fusion and sensitivity...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Kan A,Litovsky RY,Goupell MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Previous studies strongly suggest that declines in auditory threshold can lead to impaired cognition. The aim of this study was to expand that picture by investigating how the relationships between age, auditory function, and cognitive function vary with the types of auditory and cognitive function considere...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Danielsson H,Humes LE,Rönnberg J

更新日期：2019-09-01 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: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：:The use of auditory brain stem response (ABR) represents a new dimension in auditory and neurological pediatric assessment. Because the ABR may be altered by stimulus and procedural variables, the lack of an established standard has reduced its clinical efficiency. This paper describes a suggested ABR protocol for inf...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Jacobson JT,Morehouse CR,Johnson MJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to determine whether bone-conducted vibration (BCV) or air-conducted sound (ACS) is the optimal mode for eliciting both ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials (oVEMPs) and cervical VEMPs (cVEMPs). DESIGN:Twelve healthy volunteers, five patients with unilateral chronic otitis ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Wang SJ,Weng WJ,Jaw FS,Young YH

更新日期：2010-04-01 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:The nature of communication between patient and practitioner influences patient outcomes. Specifically, the history-taking phase of a consultation plays a role in the development of a relationship and in the success of subsequent shared decision making. There is limited research investigating patient-centere...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Grenness C,Hickson L,Laplante-Lévesque A,Meyer C,Davidson B

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total communication provides an opportunity for very young children to receive training through both visual and auditory systems. Most children with severe hearing loss have auditory discrimination/perceptual problems in addition to a loss of hearing sensitivity. Because sophisticated assessment of auditory perceptual...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Thompson MD,Swisher MV

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Errors on a nonsense syllable test (NST) were compared to pure-tone thresholds and ages of 109 subjects with normal or sensorineural hearing loss. A strong correlation was found between the number of NST errors and hearing loss at 2000 and 250 Hz. NST errors do not appear to be related to the age of subjects. Excellen...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Butts FM,Ruth RR,Schoeny ZG

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:It is well established that catastrophic misinterpretations and fear are involved in the suffering and disability of patients with chronic pain. This study investigated whether similar processes explain suffering and disability in patients with chronic tinnitus. We hypothesized that patients who catastrophic...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Cima RF,Crombez G,Vlaeyen JW

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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: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：: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