The human brain tracks amplitude fluctuations of both speech and music, which reflects
acoustic processing in addition to the encoding of higher-order features and one's cognitive …

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 …

Auditory de-afferentation, a permanent reduction in the number of inner-hair-cells and
auditory-nerve synapses due to cochlear damage or synaptopathy, can reliably be …

Purpose: To identify the pathophysiological definitions adopted by studies investigating
“cochlear synaptopathy”(CS) and “hidden hearing loss”(HHL). Research strategies: The …

Sound processing in the human auditory system is complex and highly non-linear, whereas
hearing aids (HAs) still rely on simplified descriptions of auditory processing or hearing loss …

Recent studies have found that envelope following responses (EFRs) are a marker of age-
related and noise-or ototoxic-induced cochlear synaptopathy (CS) in research animals …

Aging, noise exposure, and ototoxic medications lead to cochlear synapse loss in animal
models. As cochlear function is highly conserved across mammalian species, synaptopathy …

Many older listeners have difficulty understanding speech in noise, when cues to speech-
sound identity are less redundant. The amplitude envelope of speech fluctuates dramatically …

Current hearing aids mostly provide sound amplification fittings based on individual hearing
thresholds or perceived loudness, even though it is known that sensorineural hearing …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to critically evaluate lifetime noise exposure history
(LNEH) reporting. First, two different approaches to evaluate the cumulative LNEH were …