abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of the study was to compare real-ear to coupler difference (RECD) values in the right and left ear of adults using three earmold configurations. DESIGN:The RECD was obtained from both ears of 18 normal hearing adults by subtracting the HA2 2-cc coupler response from the real-ear response using an...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Munro KJ,Buttfield LM

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：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:The main objective of this study was to assess the correlation of auditory event related potential (ERP) measures with behavioral assessment data to identify if ERPs including mismatch negativity (MMN) can be used to categorize cochlear implant patients into good and poor performers. DESIGN:We investigated a...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Singh S,Liasis A,Rajput K,Towell A,Luxon L

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine the maximum stimulus levels at which a measured auditory steady-state response (ASSR) can be assumed to be a reliable measure of auditory thresholds. DESIGN:ASSR thresholds were measured at octave frequencies from 500 to 4000 Hz in 10 subjects with profound hearing loss. These subjects provided ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gorga MP,Neely ST,Hoover BM,Dierking DM,Beauchaine KL,Manning C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Inability to understand speech in noise has been cited repeatedly as the principal complaint of hearing aid users. While data exist documenting the benefit provided by hearing aids with directional microphones when listening to speech in noise, little work has been done to develop a standard clinical protocol...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Dhar S,Humes LE,Calandruccio L,Barlow NN,Hipskind N

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The objectives of this study were to characterize the effects of presentation level on speech recognition in quiet by cochlear implant users with the Nucleus 22 SPEAK and Clarion v1.2 CIS speech-processing strategies, and to relate speech recognition at low presentation levels to stimulus audibility as measur...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Donaldson GS,Allen SL

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) has become a diagnostic tool to evaluate the integrity of sacculo-collic reflex. To obtain a more consistent VEMP response in normal-hearing subjects, we examine whether clicks or short tone bursts are more effective in eliciting VEMP responses. DESIGN:Prospective ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Cheng PW,Huang TW,Young YH

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Recent studies indicate that high-frequency amplification may provide little benefit for listeners with moderate-to-severe high-frequency hearing loss, and may even reduce speech recognition. Moore and colleagues have proposed a direct link between this lack of benefit and the presence of regions of nonfuncti...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Summers V,Molis MR,Müsch H,Walden BE,Surr RK,Cord MT

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study investigated factors contributing to the comprehension and production of English language by children with prelingual deafness after 4 to 7 yr of multichannel cochlear implant use. The analysis controlled for the effects of child and family characteristics so that educational factors most conducive...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Geers AE,Nicholas JG,Sedey AL

更新日期：2003-02-01 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:The aim of the present experiment was to assess the consequences of cochlear implantation at different ages on the development of the human central auditory system. DESIGN:Our measure of the maturity of central auditory pathways was the latency of the P1 cortical auditory evoked potential. Because P1 latenci...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Sharma A,Dorman MF,Spahr AJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the ability of clinical test signals to match the aided levels of real speech, across a range of hearing aid circuit types and strengths. DESIGN:Hearing aids (N = 41) were set to DSL targets for moderate, severe, and profound hearing losses. These hearing aids were tested with three test signals ...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Scollie SD,Seewald RC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This study compared speech recognition performance on the Northwestern University Auditory Test No. 6 (NU-6) and the Connected Speech Test (CST) for three hearing aid circuits (peak clipping [PC], compression limiting [CL], and wide dynamic range compression [WDRC]) in adults with symmetrical sensorineural h...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Shanks JE,Wilson RH,Larson V,Williams D

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the middle ear dynamic characteristics in patients with otosclerosis using the sweep frequency impedance meter (SFI test) and conventional tympanometry, and also to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of the SFI test for otosclerosis. DESIGN:The study was designed to collect a total of 25 (36 e...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Zhao F,Wada H,Koike T,Ohyama K,Kawase T,Stephens D

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

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: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 investigate the effects of number of channels and speech-to-noise ratio on connected discourse tracking (CDT) through simulations of cochlear implant speech processing. Previous studies have used citation-form vowel and consonant materials or simple sentences. CDT rates were expected to be less likely to b...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Faulkner A,Rosen S,Wilkinson L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the applicability of the self-report inventory, Satisfaction with Amplification in Daily Life (SADL), at 2 wk postfitting. DESIGN:The SADL was completed by two groups of hearing aid users, one fitted 2 wk before completion, the other at least 1 yr before. All SADLs were completed as a paper an...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： McLeod B,Upfold L,Broadbent C

更新日期：2001-08-01 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: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：OBJECTIVES:1) To describe the auditory brain stem response (ABR) measurement system and optimized methods used for study of newborn hearing screening. 2) To determine how recording and infant factors related to the screening, using well-defined, specific ABR outcome measures. DESIGN:Seven thousand one hundred seventy-...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Sininger YS,Cone-Wesson B,Folsom RC,Gorga MP,Vohr BR,Widen JE,Ekelid M,Norton SJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:No outcome measure has universal validity and applicability. When designing, promulgating or selecting a particular instrument, audiologists should take care to consider and specify the detailed purposes to which the measure will be directed, and the particular populations to which it will be applied. Scales that have...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gatehouse S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The performance of four insert earplugs was evaluated by determining the Noise Reduction Rating (NRR) and the Subject-Fit Noise Reduction Rating [NRR(SF)]. The NRR and NRR(SF) were calculated from real-ear attenuation at threshold (REAT) data collected using the experimenter-fit protocol described in the now-...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Franks JR,Murphy WJ,Johnson JL,Harris DA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine differences among various test protocols on the fail rate at hospital discharge for infants in the well-baby nursery (WBN) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who received hearing screening through a universal newborn hearing screening demonstration project. DESIGN:The outcomes of several scre...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gravel J,Berg A,Bradley M,Cacace A,Campbell D,Dalzell L,DeCristofaro J,Greenberg E,Gross S,Orlando M,Pinheiro J,Regan J,Spivak L,Stevens F,Prieve B

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Comparison of preverbal communication behavior in young children before receiving cochlear implants with outcomes 3 yr after implantation on speech identification and speech production tasks, to assess whether outcomes can be predicted from characteristics inherent to the child before implantation. DESIGN:Vi...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Tait M,Lutman ME,Robinson K

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate a technique for objectively calibrating bone conductors on an individual basis using distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs). DESIGN:Individual calibrations were obtained using DPOAEs recorded from a single ear of 21 normally hearing adults. Validity and robustness of the technique w...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Purcell D,Kunov H,Cleghorn W

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:1) To describe distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) test performance when a priori response criteria are applied to a large set of DPOAE data. 2) To describe DPOAE test performance when multifrequency definitions of auditory function are used. 3) To determine DPOAE test performance when a single d...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Gorga MP,Neely ST,Dorn PA

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:To provide insight into the behavioral characteristics of people who listen excessively to loud music, the 32-item Northeastern Excessive Music Listening Survey was developed and administered to 90 subjects. Results indicate that 8 of the 90 subjects scored within a range that would suggest the presence of a maladapti...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Florentine M,Hunter W,Robinson M,Ballou M,Buus S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A fundamental problem in the study of human spoken word recognition concerns the structural relations among the sound patterns of words in memory and the effects these relations have on spoken word recognition. In the present investigation, computational and experimental methods were employed to address a num...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Luce PA,Pisoni DB

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The main objective was to investigate whether the broadening and narrowing of formant bandwidths had a significant effect on the identification of vowels often confused by Nucleus cochlear implant recipients using the Spectral Peak (SPEAK) speech coding strategy. Specifically, identification performance for s...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Hawks JW,Fourakis MS,Skinner MW,Holden TA,Holden LK

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the performance of cochlear implant patients and normal-hearing subjects on a musical interval labeling task, and to determine whether information regarding musical interval size is available to cochlear implant patients under realistic everyday listening conditions. DESIGN:Two Nucleus cochlear im...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Pijl S

更新日期：1997-10-01 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: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：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to present descriptive results from an audiometric examination of a male twin sample, compare the values with normative databases, and explore whether there are age differences in genetic and environmental contributions to variation in hearing. DESIGN:Audiometric and questionnair...

journal_title：Ear and hearing

authors： Karlsson KK,Harris JR,Svartengren M

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00