Late-onset auditory deprivation: a review of past research and an assessment of future research needs.

abstract：:A short closed-set test of speech discrimination using consonants frequently confused by the hearing impaired and scored on the basis of distinctive features was developed and examined for reliability. In experiment I the Distinctive Feature Difference (DFD) Test and the CID W-22 Test were low-pass filtered and presen...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Feeney MP,Franks JR

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A correlation of hearing deficits and enamel defects was investigated in 18 children presenting to a pediatric neurology service for hearing evaluation. Eleven had enamel defects. Five had defects consistent with a systemic insult occurring as early as 14 weeks gestation, two between 29 to 33 weeks gestation, and four...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Murray GS,Johnsen DC

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Interference between a target and simultaneous maskers occurs both at the cochlear level through energetic masking and more centrally through informational masking (IM). Hence, quantifying the amount of IM requires a strict control of the energetic component. Presenting target and maskers on different sides ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Calcus A,Agus T,Kolinsky R,Colin C,Deltenre P

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：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：: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：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：: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：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：OBJECTIVE:To examine the prevalence of auditory neuropathy in a group of infants at risk for hearing impairment and to present an overview of the clinical findings for affected children. DESIGN:Results for 20 subjects who showed repeatable cochlear microphonic potentials in the absence of click-evoked auditory brain s...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Rance G,Beer DE,Cone-Wesson B,Shepherd RK,Dowell RC,King AM,Rickards FW,Clark GM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Temporal envelope and periodicity components (TEPC) in the speech signal have potentials to offer important cues for speech recognition especially in tonal languages. The aims of this study are: (i) to investigate the degree of contributions of TEPC to lexical tone identification in Cantonese; and (ii) to in...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Yuen KC,Yuan M,Lee T,Soli S,Tong MC,van Hasselt CA

更新日期：2007-04-01 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: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：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：OBJECTIVES:Cochlear implants (CIs) are increasingly recommended to individuals with residual bilateral acoustic hearing. Although new hearing-preserving electrode designs and surgical approaches show great promise, CI recipients are still at risk to lose acoustic hearing in the implanted ear, which could prevent the ab...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Sheffield BM,Schuchman G,Bernstein JGW

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to examine the importance of amplitude envelope cues to sentence identification for aged listeners. We also examined the effect of increasing alterations (i.e., compression ratio) and amount of available frequency content (i.e., number of channels) for this population. DESIGN:Th...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Souza PE,Kitch V

更新日期：2001-04-01 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：: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：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：:The nature of functional hearing loss was retrospectively studied with respect to hearing sensitivity after resolution of the nonorganic components in 63 adults with bilateral exaggerated losses (126 ears). The configuration of the functional components (difference between the functional and resolved thresholds) was f...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gelfand SA,Silman S

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cochlear implant (CI) users suffer from a range of speech impairments, such as stuttering and vocal control of pitch and intensity. Though little research has focused on the role of auditory feedback in the speech of CI users, these speech impairments could be due in part to limited access to low-frequency c...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Caldwell MT,Jiradejvong P,Limb CJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:A measurement of noise exposure levels of players of electronic games was made in two small arcades using a noise dosimeter. Two different measurements were made, at normal operating levels and maximum possible levels. The results showed that excessive exposure levels were possible on arcade games and that these level...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Plakke BL

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:With broadening candidacy criteria for cochlear implantation, a greater number of pediatric candidates have usable residual hearing in their nonimplanted ears. This population potentially stands to benefit from continued use of conventional amplification in their nonimplanted ears. The purposes of this invest...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Holt RF,Kirk KI,Eisenberg LS,Martinez AS,Campbell W

更新日期：2005-08-01 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 relationship between otitis media with effusion (OME) at preschool age and performance on five tests of auditory perception was studied in 89 school-age children who had OME histories well documented from participation in serial screening for OME at 2-4 yr of age. The tests used at 7.5-8 yr of age were: speech-in-...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Schilder AG,Snik AF,Straatman H,van den Broek P

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Previous research has demonstrated the feasibility of programming cochlear implants (CIs) via telepractice. To effectively use telepractice in a comprehensive manner, all components of a clinical CI visit should be validated using remote technology. Speech-perception testing is important for monitoring outco...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Sevier JD,Choi S,Hughes ML

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides an overview of changes in the perception of sound that result from cochlear damage. It starts with a brief introduction to the physiology of the cochlea, emphasizing the role of the "active mechanism" and describing how cochlear function is altered by cochlear damage. Then the effects of cochlear d...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Moore BC

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the effect of various pathologies on power reflectance (PR) and absorbance measured in human adults. The pathologies studied include those affecting the tympanic membrane, the middle-ear ossicles, the middle-ear cavity, the inner ear, and intracranial pressure. Interesting pathology-induced chan...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Nakajima HH,Rosowski JJ,Shahnaz N,Voss SE

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00