Since the first edition was published in 1998, considerable advances have been made in the
fields of pitch perception and speech perception. In addition, there have been major …

Individuals with severe to profound hearing loss are likely to present with complex listening
needs that require evidence-based solutions. This document is intended to inform the …

Music is an important part of life for many people. It can evoke a wide range of emotions,
including sadness, happiness, anger, tension, relief and excitement. People with hearing …

Animals exposed to noise trauma show augmented synchronous neural activity in
tonotopically reorganized primary auditory cortex consequent on hearing loss. Diminished …

Some theories of mechanisms of tinnitus generation lead to the prediction that the pitch
associated with tonal tinnitus should be related to the “edge frequency” of the audiogram, fe …

Methods: A total of 114 patients were randomized into three groups: conventional HA using
wide dynamic range compression, HA with frequency translation, and HA with linear …

Objectives: It is possible for auditory prostheses to provide amplification for frequencies
above 6 kHz. However, most current hearing-aid fitting procedures do not give …

Many older adults have difficulty understanding speech in noisy backgrounds. In this study,
we examined peripheral auditory, higher-level auditory, and cognitive factors that may …

The benefit for speech intelligibility of extending the bandwidth of hearing aids was
assessed when the target speech (sentences) and background (two talkers) were co-located …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the rate of and factors contributing to non-
adherence to hearing-aid use in the UK National Health Service. Design: A cross-sectional …