abstract：OBJECTIVES:The first aim of the present study was to determine the change in speech recognition in noise over a period of 5 years in participants ages 18 to 70 years at baseline. The second aim was to investigate whether age, gender, educational level, the level of initial speech recognition in noise, and reported chro...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Stam M,Smits C,Twisk JW,Lemke U,Festen JM,Kramer SE

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The ability of a treatment method to interfere with tinnitus-related neural activity patterns, such as cortical gamma rhythms, has been suggested to indicate its potential in relieving tinnitus. Therapeutic modulation of gamma-band oscillations with vagus nerve stimulation has been recently reported in epile...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hyvärinen P,Yrttiaho S,Lehtimäki J,Ilmoniemi RJ,Mäkitie A,Ylikoski J,Mäkelä JP,Aarnisalo AA

更新日期：2015-05-01 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: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：OBJECTIVES:In newer-generation Cochlear Ltd. cochlear implants, two adjacent electrodes can be electrically coupled to produce a single contact or "dual electrode" (DE). The goal of the present study was to evaluate whether relatively large impedance differences (>3.0 kOhms) between coupled electrodes affect the excita...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hughes ML,Baudhuin JL,Goehring JL

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The main objective was to investigate age-related differences on the listening in spatialized noise-sentences (LiSN-S) test in adults with normal audiometric thresholds in most of the speech range. A second objective was to examine the contributions of auditory, cognitive, and linguistic abilities to LiSN-S ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Besser J,Festen JM,Goverts ST,Kramer SE,Pichora-Fuller MK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The active middle ear implant Vibrant Soundbridge® was originally designed to treat mild-to-severe sensorineural hearing losses. The floating mass transducer (FMT) is crimped onto the long incus process. The procedure is termed incus vibroplasty to distinguish from other attachment sites or stimulus modi for...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Mlynski R,Dalhoff E,Heyd A,Wildenstein D,Hagen R,Gummer AW,Schraven SP

更新日期：2015-01-01 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: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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effectiveness of a home-based and a laboratory-based localization training program. DESIGN:This study examined the effectiveness of a localization training program on improving the localization ability of 15 participants with a mild-to-moderately severe hearing loss. These participants had wo...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Kuk F,Keenan DM,Lau C,Crose B,Schumacher J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:During the earlier years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, initial reports described sensorineural hearing loss in up to 49% of individuals with HIV/AIDS. During those years, patients commonly progressed to advanced stages of HIV disease and frequently had neurological complications. However, the abnormalities on pu...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Luque AE,Orlando MS,Leong UC,Allen PD,Guido JJ,Yang H,Wu H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether a predictable relationship existed between self-reported dizziness handicap and video Head Impulse Test (vHIT) results in a large sample of patients reporting to a dizziness clinic. Secondary objectives included describing the characteristics of the ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McCaslin DL,Jacobson GP,Bennett ML,Gruenwald JM,Green AP

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors undertook a review of the literature, focussing on publications describing the following: (1) Pure tone threshold data for adolescents/young adults; (2) Measurements/estimates of noise exposure from leisure activities; and (3) The relationship between hearing threshold levels (HTLs) and leisure-noise expos...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Carter L,Williams W,Black D,Bundy A

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：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:To report population-based prevalence of hearing impairment based on speech recognition in noise testing in a large and inclusive sample of U.K. adults aged 40 to 69 years. The present study is the first to report such data. Prevalence of tinnitus and use of hearing aids is also reported. DESIGN:The researc...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dawes P,Fortnum H,Moore DR,Emsley R,Norman P,Cruickshanks K,Davis A,Edmondson-Jones M,McCormack A,Lutman M,Munro K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although previous research indicates that cognitive skills influence benefit from different types of hearing aid algorithms, comparatively little is known about the role of, and potential interaction with, hearing loss. This holds true especially for noise reduction (NR) processing. The purpose of the presen...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Neher T,Grimm G,Hohmann V,Kollmeier B

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：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：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to examine the quantity of adult words, adult-child conversational turns, and electronic media in the auditory environments of toddlers who are hard of hearing (HH) and to examine whether these factors contributed to variability in children's communication outcomes. DESIGN:...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Ambrose SE,VanDam M,Moeller MP

更新日期：2014-03-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although the spectrally degraded input provided by cochlear implants (CIs) is sufficient for speech perception in quiet, it poses problems for talker identification. The present study examined the ability of normally hearing (NH) children and child CI users to recognize cartoon voices while listening to spec...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： van Heugten M,Volkova A,Trehub SE,Schellenberg EG

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to review the literature regarding human noise-induced permanent threshold shift and to determine whether the observed data agreed with the predictions of two different exchange rates (ERs). DESIGN:An initial list of possibly relevant studies included those cited by authors who endo...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dobie RA,Clark WW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The effects of directing, switching, and misdirecting auditory spatial attention in a complex listening situation were investigated in 8 younger and 8 older listeners with normal-hearing sensitivity below 4 kHz. DESIGN:In two companion experiments, a target sentence was presented from one spatial location a...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Singh G,Pichora-Fuller MK,Schneider BA

更新日期：2013-11-01 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: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：:This article reviews the temporal aspects of human hearing as measured using the auditory evoked potentials. Interaural timing cues are essential to the detection and localization of sound sources. The temporal envelope of a sound--how it changes in amplitude over time--is crucially important for speech perception. Ti...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Picton T

更新日期：2013-07-01 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

abstract：PURPOSE:Children with hearing loss (HL) are known to have smaller receptive vocabularies than children with normal hearing (NH). This may be due, in part, of their reduced exposure to new words and their slower rate of word learning. A necessary prerequisite to lexical development is the detection of new words in conve...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Pittman AL,Schuett BC

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to examine audiovisual speech integration in cochlear-implanted children and in normally hearing children exposed to degraded auditory stimuli. Previous studies have shown that speech perception in cochlear-implanted users is biased toward the visual modality when audition and...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Huyse A,Berthommier F,Leybaert J

更新日期：2013-01-01 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:Habituation to tinnitus cannot occur with total masking, an argument made by proponents of "tinnitus retraining therapy." We also compared the effectiveness of retraining therapy with mixing-point masking, total masking, and with counseling alone. DESIGN:Forty-eight tinnitus patients were randomly assigned ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Tyler RS,Noble W,Coelho CB,Ji H

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

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:Speech intelligibility is strongly influenced by the ability to process temporal modulations. It is hypothesized that in dyslexia, deficient processing of rapidly changing auditory information underlies a deficient development of phonological representations, causing reading and spelling problems. Low-freque...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Poelmans H,Luts H,Vandermosten M,Boets B,Ghesquière P,Wouters J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Auditory temporal processing frequently appears more affected in old subjects than would be predicted by the degree of peripheral hearing loss, pointing to an age-dependent central processing deficit. In parallel, an age-dependent decline of inhibitory function has been demonstrated in the auditory pathway, ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gleich O,Strutz J

更新日期：2011-11-01 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:This study examined the phases of auditory steady state responses (ASSRs) evoked by exponentially amplitude-modulated (AM) tones in 44 newborn infants (within 3 days of birth) and in 15 older infants (within 3 to 15 wks of birth). Our hypothesis was that the phases of the ASSRs would show orderly changes wit...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Choi JM,Purcell DW,John MS

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：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