Hearing impairment is a serious disease with increasing prevalence. It is defined based on
increased audiometric thresholds but increased thresholds are only partly responsible for …

Auditory deafferentation, or permanent loss of auditory nerve afferent terminals, occurs after
noise overexposure and aging and may accompany many forms of hearing loss. It could …

It has long been known that some listeners experience hearing difficulties out of proportion
with their audiometric losses. Notably, some older adults as well as auditory neuropathy …

Speech intelligibility can vary dramatically between individuals with similar clinically defined
severity of hearing loss based on the audiogram. These perceptual differences, despite …

Many listeners with hearing thresholds within the clinically normal range nonetheless
complain of difficulty hearing in everyday settings and understanding speech in noise …

Many individuals with seemingly normal hearing abilities struggle to understand speech in
noisy backgrounds. To understand why this might be the case, we investigated the neural …

An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

People with cochlear hearing loss have substantial difficulty understanding speech in real-
world listening environments (eg, restaurants), even with amplification from a modern digital …

While changes in cochlear frequency tuning are thought to play an important role in the
perceptual difficulties of people with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), the possible role of …

Over the past decades, different types of auditory models have been developed to study the
functioning of normal and impaired auditory processing. Several models can simulate …