The Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model: theoretical, empirical, and clinical advances

J Rönnberg, T Lunner, A Zekveld, P Sörqvist… - Frontiers in systems …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Working memory is important for online language processing during conversation. We use it
to maintain relevant information, to inhibit or ignore irrelevant information, and to attend to …

Burden of disease caused by otitis media: systematic review and global estimates

L Monasta, L Ronfani, F Marchetti, M Montico… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Otitis media (OM) is a leading cause of health care visits and drugs prescription.
Its complications and sequelae are important causes of preventable hearing loss …

Hearing impairment and cognitive energy: The framework for understanding effortful listening (FUEL)

MK Pichora-Fuller, SE Kramer, MA Eckert… - Ear and …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The Fifth Eriksholm Workshop on “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Energy” was
convened to develop a consensus among interdisciplinary experts about what is known on …

Listening effort and fatigue: What exactly are we measuring? A British Society of Audiology Cognition in Hearing Special Interest Group 'white paper'

R McGarrigle, KJ Munro, P Dawes… - … journal of audiology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: There is growing interest in the concepts of listening effort and fatigue associated
with hearing loss. However, the theoretical underpinnings and clinical meaning of these …

Age-group differences in speech identification despite matched audiometrically normal hearing: contributions from auditory temporal processing and cognition

C Füllgrabe, BCJ Moore, MA Stone - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Hearing loss with increasing age adversely affects the ability to understand speech, an effect
that results partly from reduced audibility. The aims of this study were to establish whether …

Speech recognition in adverse conditions: A review

SL Mattys, MH Davis, AR Bradlow… - Language and Cognitive …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents a review of the effects of adverse conditions (ACs) on the perceptual,
linguistic, cognitive, and neurophysiological mechanisms underlying speech recognition …

The association between cognitive performance and speech-in-noise perception for adult listeners: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis

A Dryden, HA Allen, H Henshaw… - Trends in …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Published studies assessing the association between cognitive performance and speech-in-
noise (SiN) perception examine different aspects of each, test different listeners, and often …

Cognitive training for impaired neural systems in neuropsychiatric illness

S Vinogradov, M Fisher… - …, 2012 - nature.com
Neuropsychiatric illnesses are associated with dysfunction in distributed prefrontal neural
systems that underlie perception, cognition, social interactions, emotion regulation, and …

Three challenges for future research on cochlear implants

DB Pisoni, WG Kronenberger, MS Harris… - World Journal of …, 2017 - mednexus.org
Cochlear implants (CIs) often work very well for many children and adults with profound
sensorineural (SNHL) hearing loss. Unfortunately, while many CI patients display …

On the (un) importance of working memory in speech-in-noise processing for listeners with normal hearing thresholds

C Füllgrabe, S Rosen - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
With the advent of cognitive hearing science, increased attention has been given to
individual differences in cognitive functioning and their explanatory power in accounting for …