Many individuals experience hearing problems that are hidden under a normal audiogram.
This not only impacts on individual sufferers, but also on clinicians who can offer little in the …

Throughout our adult lives there is a decline in peripheral hearing, auditory processing and
elements of cognition that support listening ability. Audiometry provides no information about …

Recent animal studies have shown that the synapses between inner hair cells and the
dendrites of the spiral ganglion cells they innervate are the elements in the cochlea most …

Bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) result in several benefits, including improvements in
speech understanding in noise and sound source localization. However, the benefit bilateral …

Voice-gender differences and spatial separation are important cues for auditory object
segregation. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship of voice-gender …

Cochlear implant (CI) users have more difficulty understanding speech in temporally
modulated noise than in steady-state (SS) noise. This is thought to be caused by the limited …

Many hearing-aid wearers have difficulties understanding speech in reverberant noisy
environments. This study evaluated the effects of reverberation and noise on speech …

People suffering from age-related hearing loss typically present with deficits in temporal
processing tasks. Temporal processing deficits have also been shown in single-unit studies …

A person's ability to process temporal fine structure information is indispensable for speech
understanding. As speech understanding typically deteriorates throughout adult life, this …

Segmenting the continuous speech stream into units for further perceptual and linguistic
analyses is fundamental to speech recognition. The speech amplitude envelope (SE) has …