Objectives To examine patterns of change and plateau in speech recognition scores in
postlingually hearing impaired adult cochlear implant recipients. The study also examines …

Speech communication often takes place in noisy environments; this is an urgent issue for
military personnel who must communicate in high-noise environments. The effects of noise …

Background Healthy hearing depends on sensitive ears and adequate brain processing.
Essential aspects of both hearing and cognition decline with advancing age, but it is largely …

This study tested hypothesized relationships between noise exposure and auditory deficits.
Both retrospective assessment of potential associations between noise exposure history and …

Objective: Short-term noise exposure that induces transient changes in thresholds has
induced permanent cochlear synaptopathy in multiple species. Here, the literature was …

Objectives: Over the past decade, US Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs
audiologists have reported large numbers of relatively young adult patients who have …

People regularly communicate in complex environments, requiring them to flexibly shift their
attention across multiple sources of sensory information. Increasing recruitment of the …

Introduction: The phenomenon recently described as “hidden hearing loss” was the subject
of a meeting co-hosted by the Department of Defense Hearing Center of Excellence and MIT …

To capture the demands of real-world listening, laboratory-based speech-in-noise tasks
must better reflect the types of speech and environments listeners encounter in everyday life …

Objective: The clinical evaluation of hearing loss, using a pure-tone audiogram, is not
adequate to assess the functional hearing capabilities (or handicap) of a patient, especially …