How do we recognize what one person is saying when others are speaking at the same
time? This review summarizes widespread research in psychoacoustics, auditory scene …

Auditory distance perception plays a major role in spatial awareness, enabling location of
objects and avoidance of obstacles in the environment. However, it remains under …

Humans possess a remarkable ability to attend to a single speaker's voice in a multi-talker
background,,. How the auditory system manages to extract intelligible speech under such …

Theories of visual attention argue that attention operates on perceptual objects, and thus
that interactions between object formation and selective attention determine how competing …

Some fifty years after the first physiological studies of auditory attention, the field is now
ripening, with exciting recent insights into the psychophysics, psychology, and neural basis …

A common complaint among listeners with hearing loss (HL) is that they have difficulty
communicating in common social settings. This article reviews how normal-hearing listeners …

The problem of perceiving the sounds emanating from a particular sound source becomes
much more difficult when sounds from other independent sources occur at the same time …

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

Older individuals often find it difficult to communicate, especially in group situations,
because they are unable to keep up with the flow of conversation or are too slow in …

Older adults often have more difficulty listening in challenging environments than their
younger adult counterparts. On the one hand, auditory aging can exacerbate and/or …