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 …

Older people often show auditory temporal processing deficits and speech-in-noise
intelligibility difficulties even when their audiogram is clinically normal. The causes of such …

Clinical audiometry has long focused on determining the detection thresholds for pure tones,
which depend on intact cochlear mechanics and hair cell function. Yet many listeners with …

Evidence from animal and human studies suggests that moderate acoustic exposure,
causing only transient threshold elevation, can nonetheless cause “hidden hearing loss” that …

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

Temporal fine structure (TFS) sensitivity, frequency selectivity, and speech reception in noise
were measured for young normal-hearing (NHY), old normal-hearing (NHO), and hearing …

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine whether the processing of temporal
fine structure diminishes with age, even in the presence of relatively normal audiometric …

“Normal hearing” is typically defined by threshold audibility, even though everyday
communication relies on extracting key features of easily audible sound, not on sound …

This study tested the hypothesis that the previously reported advantage of musicians over
non-musicians in understanding speech in noise arises from more efficient or robust coding …

The speech-based envelope power spectrum model (sEPSM) presented by Jørgensen and
Dau [(2011). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 1475–1487] estimates the envelope power signal-to …