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 …

Afferent innervation of the cochlea by the auditory nerve declines during aging and
potentially after sound overexposure, producing the common pathology known as cochlear …

Loss of auditory-nerve (AN) afferent cochlear innervation is a prevalent human condition that
does not affect audiometric thresholds and therefore remains largely undetectable with …

Hearing in noise is a problem often assumed to depend on encoding of energy level by
channels tuned to target frequencies, but few studies have tested this hypothesis. The …

Several studies have shown that musical training leads to improved fundamental frequency
(F 0) discrimination for young listeners with normal hearing (NH). It is unclear whether a …

Purpose Loss of auditory nerve afferent synapses with cochlear hair cells, called cochlear
synaptopathy, is a common pathology in humans caused by aging and noise overexposure …

Auditory-nerve fibers are lost steadily with age and as a possible consequence of noise-
induced glutamate excitotoxicity. Auditory-nerve loss in the absence of other cochlear …

Schroeder-phase harmonic tone complexes can have a flat temporal envelope and rising or
falling instantaneous-frequency sweeps within F0 periods, depending on the phase-scaling …

When two voices compete, listeners can segregate and identify concurrent speech sounds
using pitch (fundamental frequency, F0) and timbre (harmonic) cues. Speech perception is …

Studies of vowel systems regularly appeal to the need to understand how the auditory
system encodes and processes the information in the acoustic signal. The goal of this study …