abstract：:Focused attention on expected voice features, such as fundamental frequency (F0) and spectral envelope, may facilitate segregation and selection of a target talker in competing talker backgrounds. Age-related declines in attention may limit these abilities in older adults, resulting in poorer speech understanding in c...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Bologna WJ,Ahlstrom JB,Dubno JR

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to measure the binaural interaction component (BIC) derived from click-evoked auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) using stimuli configured to elicit the Precedence Effect. The hypothesis was that the contribution of binaural processing to echo suppression can be evidenced by a diminished ...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Dean K,Grose JH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech recognition in complex environments involves focusing on the most relevant speech signal while ignoring distractions. Difficulties can arise due to the incoming signal's characteristics (e.g., accented pronunciation, background noise, distortion) or the listener's characteristics (e.g., hearing loss, advancing ...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Tinnemore AR,Gordon-Salant S,Goupell MJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sources and consequences of a sensorineural hearing loss are diverse. While several approaches have aimed at disentangling the physiological and perceptual consequences of different etiologies, hearing deficit characterization and rehabilitation have been dominated by the results from pure-tone audiometry. Here, w...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Sanchez-Lopez R,Fereczkowski M,Neher T,Santurette S,Dau T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The equalization cancellation model is often used to predict the binaural masking level difference. Previously its application to speech in noise has required separate knowledge about the speech and noise signals to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Here, a novel, blind equalization cancellation model is intro...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Hauth CF,Berning SC,Kollmeier B,Brand T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequency-dependent gain adjustments are routine in hearing-aid fittings, whether in matching to real-ear targets or fine-tuning to patient feedback. Patient feedback may be unreliable and fittings inefficient if adjustments are not discriminable. To examine what gain adjustments are discriminable, we measured the jus...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Caswell-Midwinter B,Whitmer WM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In users of a cochlear implant (CI) together with a contralateral hearing aid (HA), so-called bimodal listeners, differences in processing latencies between digital HA and CI up to 9 ms constantly superimpose interaural time differences. In the present study, the effect of this device delay mismatch on sound localizat...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Zirn S,Angermeier J,Arndt S,Aschendorff A,Wesarg T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People with hearing impairment find competing voices scenarios to be challenging, both with respect to switching attention from one talker to the other, as well as maintaining attention. With the Danish competing voices test (CVT) presented here, the dual-attention skills can be assessed. The CVT provides sentences sp...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Bramsløw L,Vatti M,Rossing R,Naithani G,Henrik Pontoppidan N

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Speech perception in complex sound fields can greatly benefit from different unmasking cues to segregate the target from interfering voices. This study investigated the role of three unmasking cues (spatial separation, gender differences, and masker time reversal) on speech intelligibility and perceived listening effo...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Rennies J,Best V,Roverud E,Kidd G Jr

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internet-based interventions have been developed to improve access to audiovestibular health care. This review aimed to identify outcomes of Internet interventions for adults with hearing loss, tinnitus, and vestibular disorders. Electronic databases and manual searches were performed to identify studies meeting eligi...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Beukes EW,Manchaiah V,Allen PM,Baguley DM,Andersson G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The medial olivocochlear reflex (MOCR) has been implicated in several auditory processes. The putative role of the MOCR in improving speech perception in noise is particularly relevant for children who complain of listening difficulties (LiD). The hypothesis that the MOCR may be impaired in individuals with LiD or aud...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Boothalingam S,Allan C,Allen P,Purcell DW

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1011-page book, Hearing in Adults, published in 1995, contains the fullest report of the United Kingdom’s Medical Research Council National Study of Hearing. It was designed to determine the prevalence and distribution in Great Britain of audiometrically measured hearing loss as a function of age, gender, occupati...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Akeroyd MA,Browning GG,Davis AC,Haggard MP

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent achievements in hearing aid development, such as visually guided hearing aids, make it increasingly important to study movement behavior in everyday situations in order to develop test methods and evaluate hearing aid performance. In this work, audiovisual virtual environments (VEs) were designed for communicat...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Hendrikse MME,Llorach G,Hohmann V,Grimm G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our auditory environment is constantly changing and evolving over time, requiring us to rapidly adapt to a complex dynamic sensory input. This adaptive ability of our auditory system can be observed at different levels, from individual cell responses to complex neural mechanisms and behavior, and is essential to achie...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Santurette S,Christensen-Dalsgaard J,Tranebjærg L,Andersen T,Poulsen T,Dau T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simulation framework for auditory discrimination experiments (FADE) was adopted and validated to predict the individual speech-in-noise recognition performance of listeners with normal and impaired hearing with and without a given hearing-aid algorithm. FADE uses a simple automatic speech recognizer (ASR) to estim...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Schädler MR,Warzybok A,Kollmeier B

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the fabrication and characterization of a prototype polyvinylidene fluoride polymer-based implantable microphone for detecting sound inside gerbil and human cochleae. With the current configuration and amplification, the signal-to-noise ratios were sufficiently high for normally occurring sound pressures and...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Park S,Guan X,Kim Y,Creighton FPX,Wei E,Kymissis IJ,Nakajima HH,Olson ES

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current approaches to the measurement of hearing aid benefit typically use clinical or laboratory-based speech perception tests or retrospective self-report surveys. However, when assessing hearing aid outcomes in adults with mild hearing impairment, the traditional outcome measures may not be sufficiently sensitive. ...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Timmer BHB,Hickson L,Launer S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychophysical spectral resolution and sentence reception in various types of interfering backgrounds for listeners with cochlear implants and normal-hearing subjects listening to vocoded speech. Spectral resolution was measured with a spectral modu...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Croghan NBH,Smith ZM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct forms of age-related hearing loss are hypothesized based on evidence from animal models of aging, which are identifiable in human audiograms. The Sensory phenotype results from damage (e.g., excessive noise or ototoxic drugs) to outer hair cells and sometimes inner hair cells, producing large threshold increa...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Vaden KI Jr,Matthews LJ,Dubno JR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of how hearing loss and hearing rehabilitation affect patients' momentary emotional experiences is one that has received little attention but has considerable potential to affect patients' psychosocial function. This article is a product from the Hearing, Emotion, Amplification, Research, and Training wor...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Picou EM,Singh G,Goy H,Russo F,Hickson L,Oxenham AJ,Buono GH,Ricketts TA,Launer S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical practice and research, speech intelligibility is generally measured by instructing the participant to recall sentences. Although this is a reliable and highly repeatable measure, it cannot be used to measure intelligibility of connected discourse. Therefore, we developed a new method, the self-assessed Bék...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Decruy L,Das N,Verschueren E,Francart T

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multitasking requires individuals to allocate their cognitive resources across different tasks. The purpose of the current study was to assess school-age children's multitasking abilities during degraded speech recognition. Children (8 to 12 years old) completed a dual-task paradigm including a sentence recognition (p...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Grieco-Calub TM,Ward KM,Brehm L

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares speech recognition outcomes before and after cochlear reimplantation surgery, in relation to clinical factors known before and at time of surgery. Between 2006 and 2015, 2,055 adult cochlear implant surgeries were conducted at this center, of which 87 were reimplantation surgeries (4.2%). Speech re...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Reis M,Boisvert I,Looi V,da Cruz M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report the methods and output of a workshop examining possible futures of speech and hearing science out to 2030. Using a design thinking approach, a range of human-centered problems in communication were identified that could provide the motivation for a wide range of research. Nine main research programs wer...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Carlile S,Ciccarelli G,Cockburn J,Diedesch AC,Finnegan MK,Hafter E,Henin S,Kalluri S,Kell AJE,Ozmeral EJ,Roark CL,Sagers JE

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that listeners with frequent exposure to loud music exhibit deficits in suprathreshold auditory performance consistent with cochlear synaptopathy. Young adults with normal audiograms were recruited who either did ( n = 31) or did not ( n = 30) have a history of freq...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Grose JH,Buss E,Hall JW 3rd

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recording of free-field cortical auditory evoked potential (CAEP) responses to speech tokens was introduced into the audiology management for infants with a permanent childhood hearing impairment (PCHI) during 2011-2015 at a U.K. service. Children with bilateral PCHI were studied from two sequential cohorts. Thirty-fo...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Mehta K,Watkin P,Baldwin M,Marriage J,Mahon M,Vickers D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of age on the spectro-temporal integration of speech. The hypothesis was that the integration of speech fragments distributed over frequency, time, and ear of presentation is reduced in older listeners-even for those with good audiometric hearing. Younger, middle-...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Grose JH,Porter HL,Buss E

更新日期：2016-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:People with hearing impairment are thought to rely heavily on context to compensate for reduced audibility. Here, we explore the resulting cost of this compensatory behavior, in terms of effort and the efficiency of ongoing predictive language processing. The listening task featured predictable or unpredictable senten...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Winn MB

更新日期：2016-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological studies have shown that noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) enhances the amplitude of envelope coding in auditory-nerve fibers. As pitch coding of unresolved complex tones is assumed to rely on temporal envelope coding mechanisms, this study investigated pitch-discrimination performance in li...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Bianchi F,Fereczkowski M,Zaar J,Santurette S,Dau T

更新日期：2016-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In a collaborative research project, several monaural and binaural noise reduction algorithms have been comprehensively evaluated. In this article, eight selected noise reduction algorithms were assessed using instrumental measures, with a focus on the instrumental evaluation of speech intelligibility. Four distinct, ...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Baumgärtel RM,Krawczyk-Becker M,Marquardt D,Völker C,Hu H,Herzke T,Coleman G,Adiloğlu K,Ernst SM,Gerkmann T,Doclo S,Kollmeier B,Hohmann V,Dietz M

更新日期：2015-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared elderly hearing aid (EHA) users and elderly normal-hearing (ENH) individuals on identification of auditory speech stimuli (consonants, words, and final word in sentences) that were different when considering their linguistic properties. We measured the accuracy with which the target speech stimuli ...

journal_title：Trends in hearing

authors： Moradi S,Lidestam B,Hällgren M,Rönnberg J

更新日期：2014-07-31 00:00:00