This study found that the speed and accuracy of speech recognition was significantly lower when listening to multiple changing target talkers compared to a single constant talker for sentences in noise in individuals with normal hearing.
Despite early extended high-frequency loss, speech-in-noise difficulties in cystic fibrosis are primarily predicted by standard-frequency hearing and associated neural dysfunction.
This study investigated neurophysiological markers of adaptation to noise in normal-hearing adults. Behavioural amplitude modulation (AM) detection thresholds and auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) were measured at early and late temporal positions relative to noise onset. Results showed improved AM detection and increased ASSR amplitude in the late condition, suggesting ASSRs may objectively index adaptation to noise.
Individuals with misophonia demonstrated significantly poorer ACT scores compared to controls, indicating impaired speech perception in noise likely driven by heightened emotional reactivity affecting central auditory processing.
Piano learning, music listening, and discussion workshops led to significant improvements in melody, rhythm, and timbre perception among older adults with hearing loss.
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.
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.
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.
Extended high-frequency audiometry may help identify speech-in-noise difficulty in adults whose conventional hearing thresholds and word recognition in quiet appear normal.
Stimulus degradation reduces hierarchical auditory processing, with reduced pitch encoding in the brainstem while disrupting early cortical segregation (ORN) and later cortical processing (P400).
Older adults with mild to moderate hearing loss showed robust TRF even in presence of noise indicating their ability to listen in noise and comprehend speech.
A comparison of the performance of current industry speech recognition systems to humans on many types of distorted speech revealed that industry speech recognition systems had high correlations with humans but were superhuman in some cases.