Functional consequences of poor binaural hearing in development: Evidence from children with unilateral hearing loss and children receiving bilateral cochlear …

C McSweeny, SL Cushing, JL Campos… - Trends in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Poor binaural hearing in children was hypothesized to contribute to related cognitive and
academic deficits. Children with unilateral hearing have normal hearing in one ear but no …

Energetic and informational components of speech-on-speech masking in binaural speech intelligibility and perceived listening effort

J Rennies, V Best, E Roverud, G Kidd Jr - Trends in Hearing, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Speech perception in complex sound fields can greatly benefit from different unmasking
cues to segregate the target from interfering voices. This study investigated the role of three …

The diagnosticity of psychophysiological signatures: Can we disentangle mental workload from acute stress with ECG and fNIRS?

M Parent, V Peysakhovich, K Mandrick… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability to identify reliable and sensitive physiological signatures of psychological
dimensions is key to developing intelligent adaptive systems that may in turn help to mitigate …

[HTML][HTML] Speech perception in noise: Masking and unmasking

X Wang, L Xu - Journal of Otology, 2021 - Elsevier
Speech perception is essential for daily communication. Background noise or concurrent
talkers, on the other hand, can make it challenging for listeners to track the target speech (ie …

[HTML][HTML] Discriminating between simultaneous audible alarms is easier with auditory icons

JR Edworthy, CJ Parker, EV Martin - Applied Ergonomics, 2022 - Elsevier
When more than one audible alarm is heard simultaneously, discrimination may be
compromised. This experiment compares near-simultaneous clinical alarms in two styles …

Reduction of subjective listening effort for TV broadcast signals with recurrent neural networks

NL Westhausen, R Huber… - … on Audio, Speech …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Listening to the audio of TV broadcast signals can be challenging for hearing-impaired as
well as normal-hearing listeners, especially when background sounds are prominent or too …

Benefit of binaural listening as revealed by speech intelligibility and listening effort

J Rennies, G Kidd - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
In contrast to the well-known benefits for speech intelligibility, the advantage afforded by
binaural stimulus presentation for reducing listening effort has not been thoroughly …

EEG-engagement index and auditory alarm misperception: an inattentional deafness study in actual flight condition

F Dehais, RN Roy, G Durantin, T Gateau… - … in Neuroergonomics and …, 2018 - Springer
The inability to detect auditory alarms is a critical issue in many domains such as aviation.
An interesting prospect for flight safety is to understand the neural mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Divided listening in the free field becomes asymmetric when acoustic cues are limited

MJ Fumero, MI Marrufo-Pérez, A Eustaquio-Martín… - Hearing Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Verbal communication in social environments often requires dividing attention between two
or more simultaneous talkers. The ability to do this, however, may be diminished when the …

Formation of three-dimensional auditory space

P Majdak, R Baumgartner, C Jenny - The technology of binaural …, 2020 - Springer
Human listeners need to permanently interact with their three-dimensional (3D)
environment. To this end, spatial hearing requires efficient perceptual mechanisms to form a …