How Does Action-Type Computer Game Playing Affect Hearing?
Short-term changes in hearing thresholds and speech-in-noise performance were observed in young adults exposed to FPS gameplay, as measured using mobile hearing tests.
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Corticothalamic Mechanisms of Human Auditory Selective Attention
Using cortical depth-dependent 7T fMRI and population receptive field modeling, we study the role of the corticothalamic circuitry in human auditory selective attention.
Decoding of speech acoustics from EEG: going beyond the amplitude envelope
Using linear and nonlinear model architectures, we show that diverse acoustic features can be decoded from listener EEG, some of which may provide neural markers of speech acoustic clarity and understanding.
Data Modelling for openEHR Data Standards in Audiology: Archetypes for three typical Audiological Tests
This presentation details the development and community review of openEHR archetypes for three common audiological tests — loudness scaling, speech tests, and audiogram — highlighting the modelling process and the importance of integrating clinical, research, and data perspectives to achieve widely accepted audiology data standards.
Phenotypic changes of auditory nerve fibers after excitotoxicity
Despite a permanent 40% loss of synapses, the auditory nerve achieves full functional recovery through a compensatory phenotypic shift that renders surviving fibers hyper-responsive, a mechanism that likely triggers central disorders such as tinnitus.
Thalamocortical Auditory Processing In Misophonia: Evidence From Middle Latency Auditory Evoked Potentials
Individuals with misophonia show significantly shorter MLR latencies but no amplitude differences compared to controls, pointing to enhanced thalamocortical neural transmission as a neurophysiological correlate of misophonia.
Perceptual Weighting of Auditory Localization Cues Across Frequency Bands in Free-field
This study reconciles diverging findings on spectral weighting in sound localization by measuring weighting functions in the free-field across multiple stimulus types.
Effect of Online Music‑Based Workshops on Music Perception in Older Adults with Hearing Loss
Piano learning, music listening, and discussion workshops led to significant improvements in melody, rhythm, and timbre perception among older adults with hearing loss.
HD-fNIRS Assessment of Listening Effort in CycleGAN-Enhanced Virtual Acoustics
This study presents a multimodal framework integrating Virtual Acoustics, CycleGAN-synthesized Lombard speech, and HD-fNIRS/DOT to correlate neurophysiological, behavioral, and subjective markers of listening effort in simulated occupational environments.
Extended high-frequency hearing predicts rapid spoken-word recognition
Extended high-frequency hearing sensitivity facilitates spoken-word recognition in listeners with normal audiograms.
Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Tele-Audiology among Hearing Care Professionals
This study examines practitioners’ knowledge, attitudes, and use of tele-audiology in Türkiye, demonstrating moderate awareness alongside limited implementation and underscoring the need for targeted training and system improvements.
Task-Optimized Models of Uncertainty Reproduce Human Confidence Judgments
Human confidence in auditory judgments reflects internal estimates of perceptual uncertainty and closely matches the uncertainty predicted by models optimized for real-world listening tasks.
Multi-Response Deconvolution preserves pABR Estimation Quality Despite Increasing Response Overlap
Multi-response deconvolution preserves pABR estimation quality under increasing response overlap, whereas conventional averaging reduces SNR but has minimal practical impact on ABR morphology.
Auditory Models for Hearing-loss Compensation – some Candidates
A review and discussion of some auditory models used for closed-loop hearing loss compensation.
Objective SNR Benefits from Hearing Aids Fitted with the NAL-NL3 MHL Module: Effects of Performance Level and Dome Type
This investigation objectively quantified speech-in-noise benefits obtained with the NAL-NL3 Minimal Hearing Loss (MHL) module for subclinical hearing loss using KEMAR and Ambisonic scenes, showing that occluding domes and advanced noise reduction features yield significantly greater SNR improvements than open domes and entry-level processing.
Subclinical Effects of Recreational Noise Exposure: A Pre-registered Longitudinal Study
For a longitudinal cohort of 191 teenagers, physiological and behavioural metrics revealed no changes associated with recreational noise exposure over a three-year period, despite a wide range of exposures and instances of temporary threshold shift.
Data Standards in Audiology: Data Models and Community Participation
This presentation showcases the latest progress in community-driven data standards in audiology, highlighting key developments in both openEHR and OMOP frameworks that aim to unlock interoperable big audiological data for AI-driven research and improved patient care.
Triggered: using computer vision to measure sound intolerance
Quantitative facial videography and physiological tracking reveal that misophonia triggers produce distinct, measurable signatures.
Attention to Speech Modulates Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions Evoked by Speech-Derived Stimuli in Humans
Our study demonstrates that speech-like DPOAEs are significantly reduced when focusing on a target speaker in a competing speaker paradigm, revealing peripheral effects of attention.
Effect of Aging on Forward-Masking Estimates of Medial Olivocochlear Gain Reduction: Computational simulations and Behavioral Data
Behavioral and modeling results show that forward-masking estimates of cochlear gain reduction cannot be explained solely by MOC-mediated feedback in aging listeners.
Software-Assisted Analysis and Classification of Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials
Design and validation of a software tool for labeling and machine learning–based classification of cortical auditory evoked potentials.
Re-examining Auditory Filter Parameters: A Characteristics-Based Framework with Updated Estimates for Humans
Using characteristics-based filter parameter estimation methods applied to recent physiological and forward masking data, we derived updated human auditory filter parameters.
A Neural Mass Model of the Auditory Corticothalamic Circuitry
We demonstrate that the proposed corticothalamic circuitry between the MGB, PAC, and TRN can be implemented as a stable, biologically plausible computational model, with future applications in selective attention and tinnitus research.
Student-Led Digital Innovation in Audiology: Virtual Platforms, Games, and VR for Learning and Hearing Health
This presentation showcases student‑led digital arts innovations in audiology, including virtual learning platforms, serious games, and virtual reality tools designed to enhance clinical training, hearing health education, accessibility, and learner engagement.
Cadenza: Lyric Intelligibility Prediction for Musical Enjoyment
In this Cadenza challenge, we ask entrants to improve on our baseline lyric intelligibility prediction models to address some of the challenges associated with music listening for people with hearing loss.
Multisensory Balance Assessment in Patients with Muscle Tension Dysphonia
In the study conducted by Nacci et al., it was determined that the balance system was affected in patients with dysfunctional dysphonia, and our study is consistent with these findings.
Joint Estimation of Attentional and Masking Error Rates for Speech Recognition in Competing Speech
Analyzing the distribution of keyword recognition accuracy for sentences presented in competing speech can provide estimates of how often listeners are affected by informational and energetic masking.
An AI Voice Agent for Speech Communication Assessment
This work presents a prototype of a web-based AI voice agent for speech communication testing and shows that, while natural low-latency interaction is feasible, future studies will require more sensitive task metrics.
Test–Retest Reliability of the Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT) in Young Normal-Hearing Adults
ACT demonstrates moderate-to-good test–retest reliability and strong internal consistency in young normal-hearing adults, supporting its use as a reliable, non-language-dependent clinical tool for assessing suprathreshold auditory processing and guiding individualized hearing aid fittings.
VIA+: A Gamified Digital Ecosystem for the Integrated Phenotyping of Auditory and Cognitive Development
VIA+ is a unified mHealth platform that digitizes pediatric assessment, seamlessly integrating automated audiometry, language tasks, and cognitive screening to capture high-resolution digital biomarkers for early neurodevelopmental detection and profiling.
The Digital Triad: Screen Time, Sleep Disruption, and Vestibulo-Cochlear Dysfunction—A Pilot Study
In young people, excessive daily screen time is substantially linked to worse sleep quality and more severe vestibular symptoms, indicating a convergent pattern of multisystem disturbance that calls for more long-term research
Predicting Early Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Adults: A Machine Learning Approach Using Cognitive and Linguistic Measures
Accounting for pre-cochlear implant (CI) cognitive and linguistic abilities improves prediction of post-CI speech recognition outcomes.
Exploration of the Effectiveness of Online Remote Programming for Domestic Cochlear Implant Systems
Online remote programming for Chinese domestic Nurotron cochlear implants was non-inferior to in-person programming, delivering comparable hearing and speech outcomes with good user acceptance.
Effect of Reverberation and Signal to Noise Ratio on Listening Effort in Native and Non-native Kannada Speakers
Listening effort increases with adverse acoustic conditions and is further influenced by linguistic background, with native and linguistically similar listeners showing reduced cognitive load compared to non-native speakers.
ULIXES: Universal Language-Independent eXploration of Effects of Speech Cues: Pilot Evidence of SNR-Dependent Multisensory Reweighting as a Novel Clinical Index
ULIXES pilot data demonstrate that visual capture rate under competing cue conditions provides a sensitive, SNR-graded index of multisensory perceptual reweighting, with ongoing data collection targeting clinical translation. Written cues bias what listeners report hearing in noise, and this “visual capture” changes systematically with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This provides a simple, quantitative index of how listeners shift between auditory and non-auditory information.
Loudness scaling with variations in remote mobile hardware: Can we trust the results?
This pilot study explores how variations in consumer mobile hardware may affect the reliability of reinforced Adaptive Categorical Loudness Scaling (rACALOS) in remote testing.
Clinical Validation of the Web-based Platform AUDITO for Cochlear Implant Patients
A clinical study validating AUDITO, the first brand-agnostic web-based platform for remote cochlear implant monitoring, compared to standard in-clinic testing.
Extended High-Frequency (EHF) Hearing and Speech-in-Noise Difficulty Despite Normal Conventional High-Frequency Hearing and Preserved Word Recognition in Quiet
Extended high-frequency audiometry may help identify speech-in-noise difficulty in adults whose conventional hearing thresholds and word recognition in quiet appear normal.
Effects of stimulus degradation and attention on hierarchical auditory processing: Evidence from brainstem and cortical responses
Stimulus degradation reduces hierarchical auditory processing, with reduced pitch encoding in the brainstem while disrupting early cortical segregation (ORN) and later cortical processing (P400).
Investigating the Link Between Sleep Quality, Acoustic exposure, and Proxy Measures of Hidden Hearing Loss in Young Adults
The study demonstrates that poor sleep quality in young adults with normal hearing could be associated with elevated acoustic reflex thresholds with 1000 Hz probe tone