Early childhood is a critical period of auditory learning, during which children are constantly
mapping sounds to meaning. But this auditory learning rarely occurs in ideal listening …

Recent evidence suggests that musicians may have an advantage over non-musicians in
perceiving speech against noisy backgrounds. Previously, musicians have been compared …

Frequency discrimination ability varies within the normal hearing population, partially
explained by factors such as musical training and age, and it deteriorates with hearing loss …

The mammalian cochlea functions as a filter bank that performs a spectral, Fourier-like
decomposition on the acoustic signal. While tuning can be compromised (eg, broadened …

We develop a methodology to design a stimulus optimized to entrain nonlinear, noisy limit
cycle oscillators with uncertain properties. Conditions are derived which guarantee that the …

Abstract Background Individuals with Turner syndrome (TS, ORPHA 881) experience
barriers in communication throughout life as they navigate both early conductive, and …

Objective: Recently, the digit triplet test was shown to be a sensitive speech-in-noise test for
early high-frequency hearing loss in noise-exposed workers. This study investigates if a …

Auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) encode pure tones through two modes of coding, spike time
and spike rate, depending on the tone frequency. In response to a low-frequency tone, ANF …

Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common type of hearing impairment worldwide. It
arises as a consequence of damage to the cochlea or auditory nerve, and several structures …

Ageing affects auditory neural phase-locked activities which could increase the challenges
experienced during speech-in-noise (SiN) perception by older adults. However, evidence for …