Delving into ‘hidden hearing loss’: Results from a large-scale behavioural investigation
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2016Author
Yeend, Ingrid
Beach, Elizabeth
Sharma, Mridula
Pang, Jermy
Dillon, Harvey
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Some adults report problems understanding speech in background noise yet their audiograms are clinically normal. Animal studies suggest this may result from noise-induced damage to synaptic connections between auditory nerve fibres and inner hair cells. Although this has not been demonstrated in humans, the term "hidden hearing loss" has been coined to describe the perceptual difficulties with which noise-exposed people commonly present