During the normal course of aging, perception of speech-on-speech or “cocktail party”
speech and use of working memory (WM) abilities change. Musical training, which is a …

Differences in speakers' voice characteristics, such as mean fundamental frequency (F0)
and vocal-tract length (VTL), that primarily define speakers' so-called perceived voice …

Many tinnitus patients report difficulties understanding speech in noise or competing talkers,
despite having “normal” hearing in terms of audiometric thresholds. The interference caused …

Children and older adults have greater difficulty understanding speech when there are other
voices in the background (informational masking, IM) than when the interference is a steady …

Purpose The aim of this study was to compare release from masking (RM) between
Mandarin-speaking and English-speaking listeners with normal hearing for competing …

Cochlear implant (CI) users have greater difficulty perceiving talker sex and spatial cues
than do normal-hearing (NH) listeners. The present study measured recognition of target …

Time discrimination, a critical aspect of auditory perception, is influenced by numerous
factors. Previous research has suggested that musical experience can restructure the brain …

English-speaking bimodal and bilateral cochlear implant (CI) users can segregate
competing speech using talker sex cues but not spatial cues. While tonal language …

The superdirective beamformer, while attractive for processing broadband acoustic signals,
often suffers from the problem of white noise amplification. So, its application requires well …

Spatial cues can facilitate segregation of target speech from maskers. However, in clinical
practice, masked speech understanding is most often evaluated using co-located speech …