Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is a common problem for older adults, leading to
communication difficulties, isolation, and cognitive decline. Recently, hearing loss has been …

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 …

Abstract The Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy” was
convened to develop a consensus among interdisciplinary experts about what is known on …

Correlational evidence in humans suggests that selective difficulties hearing in noisy, social
settings may reflect premature auditory nerve degeneration. Here, we induced primary …

Aging listeners, even in the absence of overt hearing loss measured as changes in hearing
thresholds, often experience impairments processing temporally complex sounds such as …

With the advent of cognitive hearing science, increased attention has been given to
individual differences in cognitive functioning and their explanatory power in accounting for …

An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

Olivocochlear efferents allow the central auditory system to adjust the functioning of the
inner ear during active and passive listening. While many aspects of efferent anatomy …

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 …

Recent animal studies have shown that the synapses between inner hair cells and the
dendrites of the spiral ganglion cells they innervate are the elements in the cochlea most …