Animal studies demonstrate that noise exposure can permanently damage the synapses
between inner hair cells and auditory nerve fibers, even when outer hair cells are intact and …

Objectives: Adults with hearing loss report a wide range of hearing aid satisfaction that does
not significantly correlate to degree of hearing loss. It is not clear which auditory behavioral …

In social settings, speech waveforms from nearby speakers mix together in our ear canals.
Normally, the brain unmixes the attended speech stream from the chorus of background …

Cochlear synaptopathy (or the loss of primary auditory synapses) remains a subclinical
condition of uncertain prevalence. Here, we investigate whether it affects humans and …

The ability to process binaural temporal fine structure (TFS) information, which influences
the perception of speech in spatially distributed soundscapes, declines with increasing …

Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to assess dual-task interference (ie, changes
between the dual-task and baseline condition) in a listening effort dual-task paradigm in …

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 …

Natural sounds convey information via frequency and amplitude modulations (FM and AM).
Humans are acutely sensitive to the slow rates of FM that are crucial for speech and music …

Over the last decade, multiple studies have shown that hearing-impaired listeners' speech-in-
noise reception ability, measured with audibility compensation, is closely associated with …

Objective IOI-HA response data are conventionally analysed assuming that the ordinal
responses have interval-scale properties. This study critically considers this assumption and …