abstract：BACKGROUND:Hearing aids today often provide both directional (DIR) and omnidirectional (OMNI) processing options with the currently active mode selected automatically by the device. The most common approach to automatic switching involves "acoustic scene analysis" where estimates of various acoustic properties of the l...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Summers V,Grant KW,Walden BE,Cord MT,Surr RK,Elhilali M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Use of personal frequency modulated (FM) systems significantly improves speech recognition in noise for users of cochlear implants (CI). There are, however, a number of adjustable parameters of the cochlear implant and FM receiver that may affect performance and benefit, and there is limited evidence to guid...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Wolfe J,Schafer EC

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been reported that up to 40% of patients over age 60 fail to generate a vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP; Su et al, 2004). When this occurs it is difficult to determine whether the absent VEMP represents evidence of bilateral impairment of the vestibulocollic reflex pathway or a normal age-r...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： McCaslin DL,Jacobson GP,Harry T

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children with auditory processing disorders (APD) are described to have a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) difficulty. Frequency-modulated (FM) systems have been reported to improve this situation. Yet the use of personal amplification that may be more portable has not been attempted. PURPOSE:To determine whethe...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Kuk F,Jackson A,Keenan D,Lau CC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wideband reflectance (WBR) provides important information about middle ear function and can explain variations in how the middle ear receives, absorbs, and transmits sound energy across a wide range of frequencies. However, as of yet, few normative studies have been published to guide clinicians in the pract...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Shahnaz N

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wideband middle ear power (WMEP) measurement is a method of middle ear analysis that may provide improved diagnostic capability over single-frequency tympanometry. However, normative data, information about test-retest reliability, and results in clinical disorders are needed for clinical application. Normative and re...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Hunter LL,Tubaugh L,Jackson A,Propes S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin disorders of the external ear are common. Although audiologists will not necessarily treat these conditions, it is important for them to be aware of these disorders and refer patients to a specialist in some instances. This report summarizes eight of the most commonly encountered skin conditions with an emphasis ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Garvey C,Garvey K,Hendi A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing and balance problems are prevalent among the elderly. Primary care physicians (PCPs) are important pivotal points of entry for ensuring that patients receive needed audiology services. New Medicare beneficiaries are entitled to one-time preventative examinations including hearing/balance screenings. A 35-item ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Johnson CE,Danhauer JL,Koch LL,Celani KE,Lopez IP,Williams VA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop a test to assess the ability of persons with cochlear implants (CIs) to interpret musical signals. Up to this time, the main direction in outcomes studies of cochlear implantation has been in relation to speech recognition abilities. With improvement in CI hardware and processi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Spitzer JB,Mancuso D,Cheng MY

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Words-in-Noise (WIN) test uses monosyllabic words in seven signal-to-noise ratios of multitalker babble (MTB) to evaluate the ability of individuals to understand speech in background noise. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the criterion validity of the WIN by comparing recognition performances under MTB ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Wilson RH,Carnell CS,Cleghorn AL

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of feedback reduction (FBR) systems on sound quality recorded from two commercially available hearing aids was evaluated using paired comparison judgments by 16 participants with mild to severe sloping hearing loss. These comparisons were made with the FBR systems on and off without audible feedback and whi...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Johnson EE,Ricketts TA,Hornsby BW

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gaps-In-Noise (GIN) test is a new procedure used in the diagnosis of central auditory processing disorders. Performance on the GIN is recorded as approximate gap detection threshold and percent correct. In order to utilize the GIN test clinically, it is important to know how presentation level influences performan...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Weihing JA,Musiek FE,Shinn JB

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As audiology strives for cost containment, standardization, accuracy of tests, and accountability, greater use of automated tests is likely. Highly skilled audiologists employ quality control factors that contribute to test accuracy, but they are not formally included in test protocols, resulting in a wide range of ac...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Margolis RH,Saly GL,Le C,Laurence J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystal Device Integrity Testing System (CITS), the first commercially available testing system of its type, allows rapid assessment of cochlear implant function by measuring averaged electrode voltages-the scalp-recorded fields generated by electrode currents. We describe our experience performing routine integrity t...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Monin DL,Kazahaya K,Franck KH

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory training has long been advocated to enhance communication but has never been time or cost-effective. This article describes the concepts underlying the development of a home-based, interactive adaptive computer program designed to engage the adult hearing-impaired listener in the hearing-aid-fitting process, ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Sweetow RW,Sabes JH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Closed-set tests of spoken word recognition are frequently used in clinical settings to assess the speech discrimination skills of hearing-impaired listeners, particularly children. Speech scientists have reported robust effects of lexical competition and talker variability in open-set tasks but not closed-set tasks, ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Clopper CG,Pisoni DB,Tierney AT

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary aim of the present study was to investigate parent satisfaction with a neonatal hearing screening program through use of a valid and reliable questionnaire developed for this purpose (Parent Satisfaction Questionnaire with Neonatal Hearing Screening Program; PSQ-NHSP). Eighty parents whose children had rec...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Mazlan R,Hickson L,Driscoll C

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six parents of 106 children (34% response rate) born between March 2000 and February 2003 retrospectively completed the "Probe of Parents' Perceptions: An Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Outcome Measure" (PPP) assessing their participation in an emerging community-based newborn hearing screening...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Danhauer JL,Johnson CE

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocochleography (ECochG) has evolved as an important tool in the diagnosis/assessment/monitoring of Ménière's disease/endolymphatic hydrops (MD/ELH). This manuscript provides an update on the use of ECochG for these purposes. The material presented includes descriptions of the components of the electrocochleogram...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Ferraro JA,Durrant JD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histories of two pediatric patients who received cochlear implants with subsequent partial recovery of hearing in the nonimplanted ear are reviewed. One child had a sudden bilateral hearing loss, presumably secondary to autoimmune ear disease. The other child had a bilateral progressive hearing loss diagnosed as l...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Sweetow RW,Rosbe KW,Philliposian C,Miller MT

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss is the most common of all disabilities in China, with three million of the 1.4 billion population affected. Recently, the release of an official neonatal hearing screening consensus has drawn attention to the importance of continued surveillance throughout childhood and the need for a system that is suite...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Bu X,Li X,Driscoll C

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acceptable noise level (ANL) is unrelated to sentence recognition in noise but may be related to phoneme recognition in noise (PRN). Individual differences in efferent activity in medial olivocochlear bundle (MOCB) and acoustic reflex (AR) pathways may account for intersubject variability in ANL and PRN. Monotic and d...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Harkrider AW,Smith SB

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been widely embraced in many health-care fields as a way of maintaining currency of knowledge and state-of-the-art treatment recommendations in an age of information abundance and rapid scientific progress. Although the principles of EBP are slowly entering the specialties of communic...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Cox RM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) were recorded using stimulus rates of 78-95 Hz in normal young subjects, in elderly subjects with relatively normal hearing, and in elderly subjects with sensorineural hearing impairment. Amplitude-intensity functions calculated relative to actual sensory thresholds (sensa...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Picton TW,Dimitrijevic A,Perez-Abalo MC,Van Roon P

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Often ABR threshold testing employs clicks to assess high-frequency hearing, and low-frequency tone bursts to assess low-frequency sensitivity. While a maturation effect has been shown for click stimuli, similar data are lacking for low-frequency toneburst stimuli. Thus, 305 infants ranging in conceptional age (CA) fr...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Hurley RM,Hurley A,Berlin CI

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of 40 young children (aged five to eight) to understand speech (monosyllables, spondees, trochees, and trisyllables) when listening in a background of real-life classroom noise. All children had some difficulty understanding speech when the noise was at levels found in many classrooms (i.e., 65...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Jamieson DG,Kranjc G,Yu K,Hodgetts WE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized the 2F1-F2 distortion product reflected in the human frequency-following response (FFR). In the first experiment, we evaluated the input-output growth functions of the distortion product at 2F1-F2 (FFR-DP) for three primary pairs. In the second experiment, we tested the effect of primary tone level va...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Pandya PK,Krishnan A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central deafness has been linked historically to bihemispheric involvement of the temporal lobe, with more recent findings suggesting that compromise of other cortical and subcortical structures can also result in this disorder. The present investigation extends our understanding of the potential anatomical correlates...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Musiek FE,Charette L,Morse D,Baran JA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the second in a series of two papers on masking. The objective of these papers is to develop a masking protocol that provides valid measures of threshold and is, in general, faster than the plateau method. In the first paper, a masking method was presented that can replace the traditional plateau method in mos...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Turner RG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of dichotic chords (free recall and directed recall), nonsense syllables (CVs), and three-pair digits was assessed on 24 musicians and 24 nonmusicians. On the dichotic-CV and dichotic-digit free-recall tasks, there was a significant right-ear advantage, but there were no group differences. With the dichotic...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Nelson MD,Wilson RH,Kornhass S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hearing-in-Noise Test (HINT) is able to measure the benefit to speech intelligibility in noise conferred when the noise masker is displaced 90 degrees in eccentricity from a speech source located at zero degrees azimuth. Both psychoacoustic and neurophysiological data suggest that the perceptual benefit of the 90-...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Phillips DP,Vigneault-MacLean BK,Boehnke SE,Hall SE

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit (APHAB) is a self-report questionnaire that is used to quantify the impact of a hearing problem on an individual's daily life. In this investigation, the relationships were explored between typical clinical audiometric data and the four subscale scores of the APHAB admini...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Cox RM,Alexander GC,Gray GA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cross-check principle was proposed by Jerger and Hayes over 20 years ago. Actually, the cross-check principle consists of a concept and a specific test protocol. The concept, that one test result confirms another test result, is still in use. Their specific protocol is essentially forgotten. The cross-check protoc...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Turner RG

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes audiologic methodology and results for evaluating potential ototoxicity in a phase I clinical trial of a new glycopeptide. This study was conducted under good clinical practices, which are regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (21 Code of Federal Regulations), and input from the F...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Campbell KC,Kelly E,Targovnik N,Hughes L,Van Saders C,Gottlieb AB,Dorr MB,Leighton A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal and dyslexic right-handed children were assessed with three dichotic listening tests, the Dichotic Digits test, the Competing Words subtest of the SCAN, and the Dichotic Consonant-Vowel test. Performance was measured as both number and percentage of correct responses in the right and left ears. Laterality was d...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Moncrieff DW,Musiek FE

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory processing disorder (APD) and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) present overlapping symptomatology. Previous research has demonstrated that professionals use different behavioral descriptors to characterize APD and ADHD combined and predominantly hyperactive-impulsive subtypes, which present wit...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Chermak GD,Tucker E,Seikel JA

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of stimulus rate and gender on the auditory middle latency response (AMLR) waveforms were examined in 20 young adult male and female subjects. Four different repetition rates were presented to subjects (1.1/sec, 4.1/sec, 7.7/ sec, and 11.3/sec). Stimulus repetition rate had a significant effect on Pa laten...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Tucker DA,Dietrich S,Harris S,Pelletier S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The median method was evaluated as an alternative way of expressing the mismatch negativity (MMN). Traditionally, signal averaging has been used to extract these event-related potentials from unwanted background noise. However, mean values are biased by unrejected artifact that skews the relatively small distribution ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Fox LG,Dalebout SD

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a clinical experiment, it was found that there is a high correlation between the compliance measured by tympanometry and the minimum size of the earmold vent, which just solves the client's occlusion problem related to his/her own voice when using a hearing aid. For ears with sensorineural hearing losses, complianc...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Carle R,Laugesen S,Nielsen C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In studies to date, the effectiveness of the directional microphone has been investigated independently of the signal processing scheme used in the hearing aid. In addition, the number and placement of the background noise speakers can create an advantage for a particular polar pattern (i.e., cardioid, supercardioid, ...

journal_title：Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

authors： Novick ML,Bentler RA,Dittberner A,Flamme GA

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00