Cochlear implant candidate selection.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how speech perception is affected for Nucleus cochlear implant users when their speech processor is programmed using neural response telemetry (NRT) measures rather than traditional behavioral estimates of threshold and maximum comfort level. DESIGN:Electrically evoked compound action potential ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Seyle K,Brown CJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:While classroom acoustics can affect educational performance for all students, the impact for children with minimal/mild hearing loss (MMHL) may be greater than for children with normal hearing (NH). The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of MMHL on children's speech recognition comprehension an...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Lewis DE,Valente DL,Spalding JL

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Audiologists regularly use serial monitoring to evaluate changes in a patient's auditory function over time. Observed changes are compared with reference standards to determine whether further clinical action is necessary. Reference standards are established in a control sample of otherwise healthy subjects ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McMillan GP,Reavis KM,Konrad-Martin D,Dille MF

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Normalizing perceived loudness is an important rationale for gain adjustments in hearing aids. It has been demonstrated that gains required for restoring normal loudness perception for monaural narrowband signals can lead to higher-than-normal loudness in listeners with hearing loss, particularly for binaura...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Oetting D,Hohmann V,Appell JE,Kollmeier B,Ewert SD

更新日期：2018-07-01 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:Conventional assessments of outcomes in deaf children with cochlear implants (CIs) have focused primarily on endpoint or product measures of speech and language. Little attention has been devoted to understanding the basic underlying core neurocognitive factors involved in the development and processing of s...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Pisoni DB,Kronenberger WG,Roman AS,Geers AE

更新日期：2011-02-01 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：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

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：:A follow-up study of two groups of tinnitus patients was conducted in an attempt to evaluate the tinnitus masking program. Results are discussed separately for a group of patients seen during the first three years of the program (1976 through 1978) and during the last year (1979). These results suggest an improvement ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Schleuning AJ,Johnson RM,Vernon JA

更新日期：1980-03-01 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：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:Although it has been well established that the prevalence of and severity of hearing loss increase with age, the contribution of familial factors to age-related hearing loss cannot be quantified. This is largely because hearing loss in older people has both genetic and environmental contributions. As environ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McMahon CM,Kifley A,Rochtchina E,Newall P,Mitchell P

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Peripheral auditory sensitivity is documented over a 5-year period on 4 cases with otodental dysplasia. Age of onset is noted for the proband and indicates that onset of this progressive hearing loss occurs as early as the first decade. Findings suggest that the hearing loss plateaus by the fourth decade, resulting in...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Cook RA,Cox JR,Jorgenson RJ

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Develop dose-response relations for two groups of industrial workers exposed to Gaussian or non-Gaussian (complex) types of continuous noises and to investigate what role, if any, the kurtosis statistic can play in the evaluation of industrial noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). DESIGN:Audiometric and noise e...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Zhao YM,Qiu W,Zeng L,Chen SS,Cheng XR,Davis RI,Hamernik RP

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It is widely recognized by hearing aid users and audiologists that a period of auditory acclimatization and adjustment is needed for new users to become accustomed to their devices. The aim of the present study was to test the idea that auditory acclimatization and adjustment to hearing aids involves a proces...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dawes P,Munro KJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 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：:The link between nonaudiological variables and outcomes measurement is explored. Hearing impairment can affect an individual's everyday communication in numerous ways. Both audiological and nonaudiological variables interact with each other to produce a unique predicament for each individual with hearing impairment. T...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Kricos PB

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of aural acoustic immittance measures and validated pneumatic otoscopy to identify middle ear effusion (MEE) was determined for a group of children with chronic or recurrent otitis media. The measures were made immediately prior to surgery for placement of tympanostomy tubes, with the validating diagnosis ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Nozza RJ,Bluestone CD,Kardatzke D,Bachman R

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:The use of FM systems as primary amplification for children with severe and profound hearing loss is discussed. The FM advantage for improving speech perception and for reducing the detrimental effects of distance, noise, and reverberation is described. Both hypothetical and actual cases are used to demonstrate the FM...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Madell JR

更新日期：1992-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Cochlear implants (CIs) restore a sense of hearing in deaf individuals. However, they do not transmit the acoustic signal with sufficient fidelity, leading to difficulties in recognizing emotions in voice and in music. The study aimed to explore the neurophysiological bases of these limitations. DESIGN:Twent...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Deroche MLD,Felezeu M,Paquette S,Zeitouni A,Lehmann A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the effects of intensity on hearing-impaired adults' performance on the Staggered Spondaic Word (SSW) test. Fifteen adults having mild-to-moderate cochlear hearing losses were administered the 40-item SSW test which was subdivided into four groups of ten items each, and presented at diff...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Flynn PA,Danhauer JL,Gerber SE,Goller MC,Arnst DJ

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The ability of human listeners to identify consonants (presented as nonsense syllables) on the basis of primarily temporal information was compared with the predictions of a simple model based on the amplitude modulation spectra of the stimuli calculated for six octave-spaced carrier frequencies (250 to 8000...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gallun F,Souza P

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to investigate the perceptual benefits and potential risks of implanting the Nucleus(R) multichannel auditory brainstem implant. DESIGN:Between September 1992 and October 1997 a total of 27 subjects received a Nucleus 20- or 21-channel Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI). All subjects in...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Nevison B,Laszig R,Sollmann WP,Lenarz T,Sterkers O,Ramsden R,Fraysse B,Manrique M,Rask-Andersen H,Garcia-Ibanez E,Colletti V,von Wallenberg E

更新日期：2002-06-01 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:To measure benefit in terms of speech recognition in quiet and in noise, and conservation of residual hearing in three groups of subjects implanted with the Nucleus Straight Research Array cochlear implant. This device incorporates the Nucleus Slim Straight electrode carrier designed to be easier to insert i...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Skarzynski H,Lorens A,Matusiak M,Porowski M,Skarzynski PH,James CJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00