Purpose Listeners with hearing loss, as well as many listeners with clinically normal hearing,
often experience great difficulty segregating talkers in a multiple-talker sound field and …

Purpose To compare the ability of the auditory brainstem response to complex sounds
(cABR) to predict subjective ratings of speech understanding in noise on the Speech …

Objectives: The goals of the present study were twofold: in the first part, the prevalence and
profile of hearing disability in healthy, middle-aged persons were determined by the speech …

The purposes of the study were to examine the test-retest properties of the speech, spatial,
and qualities of hearing scale (SSQ) and to determine if the method of test administration …

The German short form of the Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ) was
administered in a cross-sectional study based on stratified random samples complemented …

Effort during listening is commonly measured using the task‐evoked pupil response (TEPR);
a pupillometric marker of physiological arousal. However, studies to date report no …

Objectives: Masked speech recognition is typically assessed as though the target and
background talkers are all directly facing the listener. However, background speech in …

The ability to identify the words spoken by one talker masked by two or four competing
talkers was tested in young-adult listeners with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL). In a …

Zusammenfassung Die systematische Verwendung von Fragebögen hat in zahlreichen
Feldern der Audiologie, insbesondere in der Hörgeräteversorgung, zunehmend an …

Three experiments measured the effects of age on informational masking of speech by
competing speech. The experiments were designed to minimize the energetic contributions …