Distorted tonotopy severely degrades neural representations of connected speech in noise following acoustic trauma

S Parida, MG Heinz - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Listeners with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) struggle to understand speech, especially
in noise, despite audibility compensation. These real-world suprathreshold deficits are …

Features of cognitive ability and central auditory processing of preschool children with minimal and mild hearing loss

H Ji, X Yu, Z Xiao, H Zhu, P Liu, H Lin, R Chen… - Journal of Speech …, 2023 - ASHA
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the current status of cognitive development and
central auditory processing development of preschool children with minimal and mild …

[HTML][HTML] Cortical potentials evoked by tone frequency changes compared to frequency discrimination and speech perception: Thresholds in normal-hearing and …

BMD Vonck, MJW Lammers, WAA Schaake… - Hearing research, 2021 - Elsevier
Frequency discrimination ability varies within the normal hearing population, partially
explained by factors such as musical training and age, and it deteriorates with hearing loss …

Children with hearing loss can predict during sentence processing

R Holt, L Bruggeman, K Demuth - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Listeners readily anticipate upcoming sentence constituents, however little is known about
prediction when the input is suboptimal, such as for children with hearing loss (HL). Here we …

Variability in auditory processing performance is associated with reading difficulties rather than with history of otitis media

HL Breadmore, LF Halliday, JM Carroll - Dyslexia, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The nature and cause of auditory processing deficits in dyslexic individuals have been
debated for decades. Auditory processing deficits were argued to be the first step in a causal …

[HTML][HTML] Neural Envelope Processing at Low Frequencies Predicts Speech Understanding of Children With Hearing Loss in Noise and Reverberation

V Easwar, ZE Peng, S Boothalingam, M Seeto - Ear and Hearing, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Children with hearing loss experience greater difficulty understanding speech in
the presence of noise and reverberation relative to their normal hearing peers despite …

[HTML][HTML] Verification of a mobile psychoacoustic test system

JC Soares, SA Veeranna, V Parsa, C Allan, W Ly… - Audiology …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many hearing difficulties can be explained as a loss of audibility, a problem easily detected
and treated using standard audiological procedures. Yet, hearing can be much poorer (or …

[HTML][HTML] Perception of voice cues in school-age children with hearing aids

G Babaoğlu, L Rachman, P Ertürk… - The Journal of the …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The just-noticeable differences (JNDs) of the voice cues of voice pitch (F0) and vocal-tract
length (VTL) were measured in school-aged children with bilateral hearing aids and children …

Effects of childhood hearing loss on the subcortical and cortical representation of speech

A Calcus, S Rosen - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Little is known about the effects of childhood mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing loss
(MM HL) on the function of the auditory pathway. We aimed to examine the effect of …

Causal relationship between the right auditory cortex and speech-evoked envelope-following response: evidence from combined transcranial stimulation and …

G Mai, P Howell - Cerebral Cortex, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Speech-evoked envelope-following response (EFR) reflects brain encoding of speech
periodicity that serves as a biomarker for pitch and speech perception and various auditory …