Evaluation of a tinnitus masking program: a follow-up study of 598 patients.

abstract：:We report results on a cued-listening task designed to simulate the listening problems commonly described by individuals with sensorineural hearing loss, especially those experienced by elderly persons. Against a background of multitalker babble, the subject detected targets embedded in continuous discourse. Noncohere...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Jerger J,Jordan C

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Increased listening effort in school-age children with hearing loss (CHL) could compromise learning and academic achievement. Identifying a sensitive behavioral measure of listening effort for this group could have both clinical and research value. This study examined the effects of signal-to-noise ratio (SN...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McGarrigle R,Gustafson SJ,Hornsby BWY,Bess FH

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：: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 paper aims to show how insertion gain responses can be translated into equivalent headphone responses, and vice versa. DESIGN:The relationship between the response types is theoretically derived by allowing for real ear to coupler differences and for real ear unaided responses. RESULTS:The necessary cor...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dillon H

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：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：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：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to analyze distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) level and signal to noise ratio in a group of infants from birth to 4 months of age to optimize prediction of hearing status. DPOAEs from infants with normal hearing (NH) and hearing loss (HL) were used to predict the pr...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Blankenship CM,Hunter LL,Keefe DH,Feeney MP,Brown DK,McCune A,Fitzpatrick DF,Lin L

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(1) To present hearing threshold data from a recent nationally representative survey in the United States (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004) in a distributional format that might be appropriate to replace Annex B in international (ISO-1999) and national (ANSI S3.44) standards and (...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hoffman HJ,Dobie RA,Ko CW,Themann CL,Murphy WJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Progress has been made in recent years in the provision of amplification and early intervention for children who are hard of hearing. However, children who use hearing aids (HAs) may have inconsistent access to their auditory environment due to limitations in speech audibility through their HAs or limited HA...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McCreery RW,Walker EA,Spratford M,Oleson J,Bentler R,Holte L,Roush P

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to describe normal characteristics of distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) signal and noise level in a group of newborns and infants with normal hearing followed longitudinally from birth to 15 months of age. DESIGN:This is a prospective, longitudinal study of 231 in...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hunter LL,Blankenship CM,Keefe DH,Feeney MP,Brown DK,McCune A,Fitzpatrick DF,Lin L

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:Several scales exist for screening handicap and assessing rehabilitation in elderly individuals with hearing loss. There are few comparative studies, however, to suggest which scales perform best. Using receiver-operating curves and responsiveness indices, we examined the relative discriminating ability and sensitivit...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Mulrow CD,Tuley MR,Aguilar C

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To measure binaural benefit over the shadowed ear alone for young bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users. It was hypothesized that children who received bilateral CIs at a young age (<4 years), and had significant bilateral experience, would demonstrate lower detection thresholds for speech sounds in backgrou...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Galvin KL,Dowell RC,van Hoesel RJ,Mok M

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：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：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：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：:A patient-wearable, single-electrode cochlear implant was first used by a patient in 1972 at the House Ear Institute. Since early 1982, a redesigned version of this system has been in clinical use. This new system, called the 3M House cochlear implant system, consists of an implanted receiver and a patient-worn signal...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Fretz RJ,Fravel RP

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome (JLNS) is a rare cause of autosomal recessive inherited deafness. JLNS patients are candidates for cochlear implantation, and represent a group that needs special attention and precautions. The aim of this article is to draw some guidelines for dealing with these patients, ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Siem G,Früh A,Leren TP,Heimdal K,Teig E,Harris S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between two dichotic listening tasks was studied. The two dichotic tests used were the Staggered Spondaic Word (SSW) test and the directed Dichotic Consonant-Vowel (CV) test. These measures were administered to 104 children between the ages of 6.0 and 8.0 yrs. The subjects were divided into two groups...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Harris VL,Keith RW,Novak KK

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study linguistic context effects on speech perception by prelingually (N = 10) and postlingually (N = 10) hearing-impaired Hebrew-speaking adolescents and adults. DESIGN:Participants were cochlear implant surgery candidates with profound sensorineural hearing loss (95 dB HL+). Four levels of speech percep...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Most T,Adi-Bensaid L

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：: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: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 evaluate the influence of auditory cues on postural sway in normal-hearing (NH) individuals, hearing-impaired individuals with vestibular impairment (HIVL), or hearing-impaired (HI) individuals without vestibular impairment. DESIGN:Thirty-two participants received a hearing and a vestibular evaluation (v...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Maheu M,Behtani L,Nooristani M,Houde MS,Delcenserie A,Leroux T,Champoux F

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：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