Listening effort is increasingly recognized as a factor in communication, particularly for and
with nonnative speakers, for the elderly, for individuals with hearing impairment and/or for …

In common practice, hearing aids are fitted by a clinician who measures an audiogram and
uses it to generate prescriptive gain and output targets. This report describes an alternative …

Background: While hearing aids for a contralateral routing of signals (CROS-HA) and bone
conduction devices have been the traditional treatment for single-sided deafness (SSD) and …

Recent animal research has shown that exposure to single episodes of intense noise
causes cochlear synaptopathy without affecting hearing thresholds. It has been suggested …

Importance Individuals with mental disorders are at an elevated risk of develo** chronic
age-related physical diseases. However, it is not clear whether psychopathology is also …

As people grow older, speech perception difficulties become highly prevalent, especially in
noisy listening situations. Moreover, it is assumed that speech intelligibility is more affected …

Common methods to assess hearing deficits and the benefit of hearing devices include
retrospective questionnaires and speech tests under controlled conditions. As typically …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify the main factors that differentiate
listeners with clinically normal or “near-normal” hearing with regard to their speech-in-noise …

Background A combined vestibular (VI) and cochlear implant (CI) device, also known as the
vestibulocochlear implant (VCI), was previously developed to restore both vestibular and …

Objectives: To investigate the long-term outcomes of cochlear implantation in individuals
with single-sided deafness (SSD) in terms of speech perception, subjective hearing …