Profound unilateral deafness reduces the ability to localize sounds achieved via binaural
hearing. Furthermore, unilateral deafness promotes a substantial change in cortical …

Accurate and objective assessment of higher order auditory processing is challenging and
mainly relies on evaluations that require a subjects' active participation in tests such as …

The perception of multiple-speaker speech is challenging. People with music training
generally show more robust and faster tone perception. The present study investigated …

Purpose: In difficult listening conditions, the visual system assists with speech perception
through lipreading. Stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) is used to investigate the interaction …

Background Speech perception tests are essential to measure the functional use of hearing
and to determine the effectiveness of hearing aids and implantable auditory devices …

When processing repeated stimuli, the neural response is attenuated (ie, neural adaptation)
and performance seems to be facilitated; however, this neural adaptation negatively …

This thesis investigates differences in sound level perception between musicians and
nonmusicians, and whether or not the vestibular system may account for these differences …