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Differences in Auditory Perception Between Young and Older Adults When Controlling for Differences in Hearing Loss and Cognition
Differences in Auditory Perception Between Young and Older Adults When Controlling for Differences in Hearing Loss and Cognition
This study was designed to examine age effects on various auditory perceptual skills using a large group of listeners (155...
The Relationship Between Impedance, Programming and Word Recognition in a Large Clinical Dataset of Cochlear Implant Recipients
The Relationship Between Impedance, Programming and Word Recognition in a Large Clinical Dataset of Cochlear Implant Recipients
Cochlear implant programming typically involves measuring electrode impedance, selecting a speech processing strategy and ...
Speech recognition with a hearing-aid processing scheme combining beamforming with mask-informed speech enhancement
Speech recognition with a hearing-aid processing scheme combining beamforming with mask-informed speech enhancement
A signal processing approach combining beamforming with mask-informed speech enhancement was assessed by measuring sentenc...
Identification and Discrimination of Sound Textures in Hearing-Impaired and Older Listeners
Identification and Discrimination of Sound Textures in Hearing-Impaired and Older Listeners
Sound textures are a broad class of sounds defined by their homogeneous temporal structure. It has been suggested that sou...
Spatial Resolution of Late Reverberation in Virtual Acoustic Environments
Spatial Resolution of Late Reverberation in Virtual Acoustic Environments
Late reverberation involves the superposition of many sound reflections, approaching the properties of a diffuse sound fie...
The Perception of Ramped Pulse Shapes in Cochlear Implant Users
The Perception of Ramped Pulse Shapes in Cochlear Implant Users
The electric stimulation provided by current cochlear implants (CI) is not power efficient. One underlying problem is the ...
Predictive models for cochlear implant outcomes: Performance, generalizability, and the impact of cohort size
Predictive models for cochlear implant outcomes: Performance, generalizability, and the impact of cohort size
While cochlear implants have helped hundreds of thousands of individuals, it remains difficult to predict the extent to wh...
Effects of Increasing the Overall Level or Fitting Hearing Aids on Emotional Responses to Sounds
Effects of Increasing the Overall Level or Fitting Hearing Aids on Emotional Responses to Sounds
Adults with hearing loss demonstrate a reduced range of emotional responses to nonspeech sounds compared to their peers wi...
Hearing Aids Reduce Daily-Life Fatigue and Increase Social Activity: A Longitudinal Study
Hearing Aids Reduce Daily-Life Fatigue and Increase Social Activity: A Longitudinal Study
People with hearing loss experience fatigue, and it is unknown whether this is alleviated by treatment with hearing aids. ...
Objective Assessment System for Hearing Prediction Based on Stimulus-Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions
Objective Assessment System for Hearing Prediction Based on Stimulus-Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions
Stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAEs) can be useful tools for assessing cochlear function noninvasively. Howev...
Utilizing True Wireless Stereo Earbuds in Automated Pure-Tone Audiometry
Utilizing True Wireless Stereo Earbuds in Automated Pure-Tone Audiometry
True wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds have become popular and widespread in recent years, and numerous automated pure-tone au...
New Avenues in Audio Intelligence: Towards Holistic Real-life Audio Understanding
New Avenues in Audio Intelligence: Towards Holistic Real-life Audio Understanding
Computer audition (i.e., intelligent audio) has made great strides in recent years; however, it is still far from achievin...
Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958
Associations Between Hearing and Cognitive Abilities From Childhood to Middle Age: The National Child Development Study 1958
Previous cross-sectional findings indicate that hearing and cognitive abilities are positively correlated in childhood, ad...
Harmonic Cancellation—A Fundamental of Auditory Scene Analysis
Harmonic Cancellation—A Fundamental of Auditory Scene Analysis
This paper reviews the hypothesis of harmonic cancellation according to which an interfering sound is suppressed or cancel...
The Listener Effect in Multitalker Speech Segregation and Talker Identification
The Listener Effect in Multitalker Speech Segregation and Talker Identification
Over six decades ago, Cherry (1953) drew attention to what he called the “cocktail-party problem”; the challenge of segreg...
Dual-Task Accuracy and Response Time Index Effects of Spoken Sentence Predictability and Cognitive Load on Listening Effort
Dual-Task Accuracy and Response Time Index Effects of Spoken Sentence Predictability and Cognitive Load on Listening Effort
A sequential dual-task design was used to assess the impacts of spoken sentence context and cognitive load on listening ef...
Auditory and Visual Integration for Emotion Recognition and Compensation for Degraded Signals are Preserved With Age
Auditory and Visual Integration for Emotion Recognition and Compensation for Degraded Signals are Preserved With Age
Since emotion recognition involves integration of the visual and auditory signals, it is likely that sensory impairments w...
The Role of Interaural Differences, Head Shadow, and Binaural Redundancy in Binaural Intelligibility Benefits Among School-Aged Children
The Role of Interaural Differences, Head Shadow, and Binaural Redundancy in Binaural Intelligibility Benefits Among School-Aged Children
In complex listening environments, children can benefit from auditory spatial cues to understand speech in noise. When a s...
Transient Noise Reduction Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network: Effects on Subjective Speech Intelligibility and Listening Comfort
Transient Noise Reduction Using a Deep Recurrent Neural Network: Effects on Subjective Speech Intelligibility and Listening Comfort
A deep recurrent neural network (RNN) for reducing transient sounds was developed and its effects on subjective speech int...
Effectiveness of Computer-Based Auditory Training for Adult Cochlear Implant Users: A Randomized Crossover Study
Effectiveness of Computer-Based Auditory Training for Adult Cochlear Implant Users: A Randomized Crossover Study
The aim of this study was to assess whether a computer-based speech-in-noise auditory training (AT) program would lead to ...
Do Room Acoustics Affect the Amplitude of Sound-Field Auditory Steady-State Responses?
Do Room Acoustics Affect the Amplitude of Sound-Field Auditory Steady-State Responses?
The sound-field auditory steady-state response (ASSR) is a promising measure for the objective validation of hearing-aid f...
A MultiCenter Analysis of Factors Associated with Hearing Outcome for 2,735 Adults with Cochlear Implants
A MultiCenter Analysis of Factors Associated with Hearing Outcome for 2,735 Adults with Cochlear Implants
While the majority of cochlear implant recipients benefit from the device, it remains difficult to estimate the degree of ...
Potential Destructive Binaural Interaction Effects in Auditory Steady-State Response Measurements
Potential Destructive Binaural Interaction Effects in Auditory Steady-State Response Measurements
An aided sound-field auditory steady-state response (ASSR) has the potential to be used to objectively validate hearing-ai...
Effect of Channel Interaction on Vocal Cue Perception in Cochlear Implant Users
Effect of Channel Interaction on Vocal Cue Perception in Cochlear Implant Users
Speech intelligibility in multitalker settings is challenging for most cochlear implant (CI) users. One possibility for th...
Cochlear Implantation in Infants: Why and How
Cochlear Implantation in Infants: Why and How
In children with congenital deafness, cochlear implantation (CI) prior to 12 months of age offers the opportunity to foste...
Listening Effort Is Not the Same as Speech Intelligibility Score
Listening Effort Is Not the Same as Speech Intelligibility Score
Listening effort is a valuable and important notion to measure because it is among the primary complaints of people with h...
Characteristics of Speech-Evoked Envelope Following Responses in Infancy
Characteristics of Speech-Evoked Envelope Following Responses in Infancy
Envelope following responses (EFRs) may be a useful tool for evaluating the audibility of speech sounds in infants. The pr...