abstract：:This study investigated the relation between the intelligibility of conversational and clear speech produced by older and younger adults and (a) the acoustic profile of their speech (b) communication effectiveness. Speech samples from 30 talkers from the elderLUCID corpus were used: 10 young adults (YA), 10 older adul...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Hazan V,Tuomainen O,Tu L,Kim J,Davis C,Brungart D,Sheffield B

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progress in drug delivery to the ear has been achieved over the last few years. This review illustrates the main mechanisms of controlled drug release and the resulting geometry- and size-dependent release kinetics. The potency, physicochemical properties, and stability of the drug molecules are key parameters for des...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Mäder K,Lehner E,Liebau A,Plontke SK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pitch perception of complex tones relies on place or temporal fine structure-based mechanisms from resolved harmonics and the temporal envelope of unresolved harmonics. Combining this information is essential for speech-in-noise performance, as it allows segregation of a target speaker from background noise....

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Bonnard D,Schwalje A,Gantz B,Choi I

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listening to speech in noise can be effortful but when motivated people seem to be more persevering. Previous research showed effects of monetary reward on autonomic responses like cardiovascular reactivity and pupil dilation while participants processed auditory information. The current study examined the effects of ...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Koelewijn T,Zekveld AA,Lunner T,Kramer SE

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the frequency specificity of amplitude envelope patterns in 4 frequency bands, which universally appeared through factor analyses applied to power fluctuations of critical-band filtered speech sounds in 8 different languages/dialects [Ueda and Nakajima (2017). Sci. Rep., 7 (42468)]. A series of 3 perceptua...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Ueda K,Araki T,Nakajima Y

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most birds encounter large pressure variations during flight, motion of the middle ear components as a result of changing ambient pressure are not well known or described. In the present study, motion of the columella footplate and tympanic membrane (extrastapedius) in domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesti...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Claes R,Muyshondt PGG,Van Assche F,Van Hoorebeke L,Aerts P,Dirckx JJJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the common use of guinea pigs in investigations of the neural mechanisms of binaural and spatial hearing, their behavioral capabilities in spatial hearing tasks have surprisingly not been thoroughly investigated. To begin to fill this void, we tested the spatial hearing of adult male guinea pigs in several exp...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Greene NT,Anbuhl KL,Ferber AT,DeGuzman M,Allen PD,Tollin DJ

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent measurements of vibrational motion to assess sound transmission through ear structures and skull contents have included three-dimensional (3D) behavior. The 3D motion of a point has been described with the three orthogonal components in the 3D space. In this article, a method to represent the 3D velocity with t...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Dobrev I,Sim JH

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many hearing-impaired listeners struggle to localize sounds due to poor availability of binaural cues. Listeners with a cochlear implant and a contralateral hearing aid - so-called bimodal listeners - are amongst the worst performers, as both interaural time and level differences are poorly transmitted. We present a n...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Dieudonné B,Francart T

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory brainstem implants (ABIs) can restore useful hearing to persons with deafness who cannot benefit from cochlear implants. However, the quality of hearing restored by ABIs rarely is comparable to that provided by cochlear implants in persons for whom those are appropriate. In an animal model, we evaluated eleme...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： McCreery D,Yadev K,Han M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fetal auditory system is functional around the 25th week of gestational age when the thalamocortical connections are established. Fetal magnetoencephalography (fMEG) provides evidence for fetal auditory brain responses to pure tones and syllables. Fifty-five pregnant women between 31 and 40 weeks of gestatio...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Draganova R,Schollbach A,Schleger F,Braendle J,Brucker S,Abele H,Kagan KO,Wallwiener D,Fritsche A,Eswaran H,Preissl H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 30 years a wide range of manipulations of auditory input and experience have been shown to result in plasticity in auditory cortical and subcortical structures. The time course of plasticity ranges from very rapid stimulus-specific adaptation to longer-term changes associated with, for example, partial h...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Irvine DRF

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endocochlear potential (EP) provides part of the electrochemical drive for sound-driven currents through cochlear hair cells. Intense noise exposure (110 dB SPL, 2 h) differentially affects the EP in three inbred mouse strains (C57BL/6 [B6], CBA/J [CBA], BALB/cJ [BALB]) (Ohlemiller and Gagnon, 2007, Hearing Resear...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Ohlemiller KK,Kaur T,Warchol ME,Withnell RH

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active transcutaneous bone conduction devices, where the transducer is implanted, are used for rehabilitation of hearing impaired patients by directly stimulating the skull bone. The transducer and the way it is attached to the bone play a central role in the design of such devices. The actual effect of varying the co...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Rigato C,Reinfeldt S,Håkansson B,Fredén Jansson KJ,Renvall E,Eeg-Olofsson M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory "octave illusion" arises when dichotic tones, presented one octave apart, alternate rapidly between the ears. This study aimed to explore the link between the perception of illusory pitches and brain activity during presentation of dichotic tones. We conducted a behavioral study of how participants percei...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Tanaka K,Kurasaki H,Kuriki S

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory system is thought to process complex sounds through overlapping bandpass filters. Frequency selectivity as estimated by auditory filters has been well quantified in humans and other mammalian species using behavioral and physiological methodologies, but little work has been done to examine frequency selec...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Burton JA,Dylla ME,Ramachandran R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term experience enhances neural representation of temporal attributes of pitch in the brainstem and auditory cortex in favorable listening conditions. Herein we examine whether cortical pitch mechanisms shaped by language experience are more resilient to degradation in background noise, and exhibit greater binaur...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Suresh CH,Krishnan A,Gandour JT

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binaural hearing confers many beneficial functions but our understanding of its underlying neural substrates is limited. This study examines the bilateral synaptic assemblies and binaural computation (or integration) in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICc) of the auditory midbrain, a key convergent cen...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： He N,Kong L,Lin T,Wang S,Liu X,Qi J,Yan J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voice emotion is a fundamental component of human social interaction and social development. Unfortunately, cochlear implant users are often forced to interface with highly degraded prosodic cues as a result of device constraints in extraction, processing, and transmission. As such, individuals with cochlear implants ...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Jiam NT,Caldwell M,Deroche ML,Chatterjee M,Limb CJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing aid (HA) users can differ markedly in their benefit from directional processing (or beamforming) algorithms. The current study therefore investigated candidacy for different bilateral directional processing schemes. Groups of elderly listeners with symmetric (N = 20) or asymmetric (N = 19) hearing thresholds f...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Neher T,Wagener KC,Latzel M

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although speech understanding is highly variable amongst cochlear implants (CIs) subjects, the remarkably high speech recognition performance of many CI users is unexpected and not well understood. Numerous factors, including neural health and degradation of the spectral information in the speech signal of CIs, likely...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Zheng Y,Escabí M,Litovsky RY

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrically evoked compound action potentials (ECAPs) have been used to examine temporal response patterns of the auditory nerve in cochlear implant (CI) recipients. ECAP responses to individual pulses in a pulse train vary across stimulation rates for individual CI users. For very slow rates, auditory neurons have a...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Hughes ML,Laurello SA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined how speech babble noise differentially affected the auditory P3 responses and the associated neural oscillatory activities for consonant and vowel discrimination in relation to segmental- and sentence-level speech perception in noise. The data were collected from 16 normal-hearing participants in a...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Koerner TK,Zhang Y,Nelson PB,Wang B,Zou H

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments on the flow-sensitive lateral line system of fishes have provided important insights into the function and sensory transduction of vertebrate hair cells. A common experimental approach has been to pharmacologically block lateral line hair cells and measure how behavior changes. Cobalt chloride (CoCl2) bloc...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Stewart WJ,Johansen JL,Liao JC

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal model research has shown that the central features of tinnitus, the perception of sound without an acoustic correlate, include elevated spontaneous and stimulus-driven activity, enhanced burst-mode firing, decreased variance of inter-spike intervals, and distortion of tonotopic frequency representation. Less we...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Brozoski T,Brozoski D,Wisner K,Bauer C

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noise, hearing loss, and electronic signal distortion, which are common problems in military environments, can impair speech intelligibility and thereby jeopardize mission success. The current study investigated the impact that impaired communication has on operational performance in a command and control environment ...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Keller MD,Ziriax JM,Barns W,Sheffield B,Brungart D,Thomas T,Jaeger B,Yankaskas K

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The US Navy, through an Office of Naval Research (ONR) lead effort on Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL), is investigating methods and techniques to mitigate hearing loss for the crews and warfighters. Hearing protection is a viable and increasingly popular method of reducing hearing exposure for many ship crew members...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Yankaskas K,Fischer R,Spence J,Komrower J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noise exposure and the subsequent hearing loss are well documented aspects of military life. Numerous studies have indicated high rates of noise-induced hearing injury (NIHI) in active-duty service men and women, and recent statistics from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs indicate a population of veterans with ...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Smalt CJ,Lacirignola J,Davis SK,Calamia PT,Collins PP

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Federal Food and Drug Administration, or FDA is generally considered a powerful gatekeeper, able to deliver or withhold life-saving cures and create or destroy economic windfalls. As the decades go by, and technologies, diseases, public health demands, and politics evolve, we can identify patterns of change, actio...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Hammill TL

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cochlear implantation (CI), which directly stimulates the cochlear nerves, is the most effective and widely used medical intervention for patients with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. The etiology of the hearing loss is speculated to have a major influence of CI outcomes, particularly in cases resulting...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Nishio SY,Takumi Y,Usami SI

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate whether gap-prepulse inhibition (GPI) deficit in patients with tinnitus occurred in the N1-P2 complex of the cortical auditory evoked potential. Auditory late responses to the intense sound of the GPI paradigm were obtained from 16 patients with tinnitus and 18 age- and hearing l...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Ku Y,Ahn JW,Kwon C,Kim DY,Suh MW,Park MK,Lee JH,Oh SH,Kim HC

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech is central to human life. As such, any delay or impairment in receptive speech processing can have a profoundly negative impact on the social and professional life of a person. Thus, being able to assess the integrity of speech processing in different populations is an important goal. Current standardized asses...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Di Liberto GM,Lalor EC

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a multifactorial disease, and dysregulation of oxidative stress is universally acknowledged as one crucial pathogenic factor for this disease. Recently studies have found the LncRNA HOTAIR is involved in the alteration of oxidative stress level, cell proliferation, cell c...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Wang B,Ding E,Shen H,Wang J,Sun K,Chen S,Han L,Zhang H,Zhu B,Xu M

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High dose of salicylate, the active ingredient in aspirin, has long been known to induce transient hearing loss, tinnitus and hyperacusis making it a powerful experimental tool. These salicylate-induced perceptual disturbances are associated with a massive reduction in the neural output of the cochlea. Paradoxically, ...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Jiang C,Luo B,Manohar S,Chen GD,Salvi R

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Existing evidence suggests a strong relationship between tinnitus and emotion. The objective of this study was to examine the effects of short-term emotional changes along valence and arousal dimensions on tinnitus outcomes. Emotional stimuli were presented in two different modalities: auditory and visual. T...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Durai M,O'Keeffe MG,Searchfield GD

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored the effects on speech intelligibility of across-formant differences in fundamental frequency (ΔF0) and F0 contour. Sentence-length speech analogues were presented dichotically (left = F1+F3; right = F2), either alone or-because competition usually reveals grouping cues most clearly-accompanied in t...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Summers RJ,Bailey PJ,Roberts B

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the current study was to characterize the normative features of wideband acoustic immittance in children for describing the functional maturation of the middle ear in 5 to 12-year-old children. Absorbance and group delay were measured in adults and three groups of children, 5-6, 7-9 and 10-12-year-olds, in...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Mishra SK,Dinger Z,Renken L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Damage to auditory nerve fibers that expresses with suprathreshold sounds but is hidden from the audiogram has been proposed to underlie deficits in temporal coding ability observed among individuals with otherwise normal hearing, and to be present in individuals experiencing chronic tinnitus with clinically normal au...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Paul BT,Bruce IC,Roberts LE

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cochlear implant insertion should be as least traumatic as possible in order to reduce trauma to the cochlear sensory structures. The force applied to the cochlea during array insertion should be controlled to limit insertion-related damage. The relationship between insertion force and histological traumatism remains ...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： De Seta D,Torres R,Russo FY,Ferrary E,Kazmitcheff G,Heymann D,Amiaud J,Sterkers O,Bernardeschi D,Nguyen Y

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the neural mechanisms underlying pitch perception are not yet fully understood, there is general agreement that place and temporal representations of pitch are both used by the auditory system. This paper describes a neural network model of pitch perception that integrates both codes of pitch and explores the...

journal_title：Hearing research

authors： Erfanian Saeedi N,Blamey PJ,Burkitt AN,Grayden DB

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00