Hearing loss is the world's fourth leading cause of disability and it is estimated that 466
million people, ie 6.1% of the world population, are living with hearing loss [1]. Defined by …

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 …

Abstract Models of auditory signal processing have been used for many years to provide
parsimonious explanations for how the normal auditory system functions at the physiological …

A hearing impairment is primarily diagnosed by measuring the hearing thresholds at a range
of auditory frequencies (air-conduction audiometry). Although this clinical procedure is …

The choice of a hearing aid and its tuning parameters should benefit from a more detailed
assessment of a patient's hearing than that occurs at present in clinical practice. The process …

Hearing impairment, and specifically sensorineural hearing loss, is an increasingly
prevalent condition, especially amongst the ageing population. It occurs primarily as a result …

Hearing is an extremely complex phenomenon, involving a large number of interrelated
variables that are difficult to measure in vivo. In order to investigate such process under …

Auditory models have been adopted for years to simulate characteristics of the human
auditory processing for normal and hearing-impaired listeners. However, individual …

Due to the problems of occlusion effect, insufficient high-frequency gain, and acoustic
feedback in conventional hearing aids, middle ear implants as a new type of hearing device …

A great challenge in diagnosing and treating hearing impairment comes from the fact that
people with similar degrees of hearing loss often have different speech-recognition abilities …