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Do new hearing aid users prefer less low- frequency, high-frequency, or overall gain than experienced users?
(2006)There seems to be a widespread belief among clinicians that new hearing aid users prefer less gain than experienced hearing aid users, and therefore that new users will acclimatize to more gain over time. This belief is ... -
Does musical training protect noise-exposed musicians from the consequences of ‘hidden hearing loss’?
(2016)"Hidden hearing loss": noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy involving the selective loss of high-threshold auditory nerve fibres without affecting auditory thresholds, but resulting in perceptual deficits such as difficulty ... -
A dual-task paradigm sensitive to listening effort in a realistic scenario
(43 rd ARO Annual Midwinter Meeting, January 25 ARO Annual Midwinter Meeting, January 25 ARO Annual Midwinter Meeting,, 2020) -
The effects of adding realism to a conventional speech-in-noise test
(2014)The speech reception threshold (SRT) is routinely used in research and in the clinic to assess people’s ability to understand speech in noise. The overall goal of this work was to determine whether introducing realistic ... -
Eliciting natural conversational Lombard speech in realistic acoustic environments
(2016)▶ Speech intelligibility tests, which are commonly used in the audiology clinic and in research, do not reflect what people experience outside the clinic. ▶ Speech intelligibility tests may be poor predictors of communication ... -
Fitting WDRC Devices: Which Rationale and How Many Channels?
(2000)Wide Dynamic Range Compression (WDRC) hearing aids are believed to be the best remedy for recruitment, which is experienced by most hearing impaired people. There are at least two theories about how WDRC devices should ... -
"Introduction to cortical auditory evoked potentials in adults: estimating hearing sensitivity"/Guy Lightfoot
(2016)Special issue of Seminars in Hearing : The use of cortical auditory evoked potentials in diagnosis and treatment of hearing disorders" -
Is the future of hearing aids in a flatpack? Issues of clinical support for self-fitting hearing aids
(2016)Self-fitting hearing aids (SFHAs) are gaining ground in the online marketplace, where they are often marketed as a low-cost alternative to traditional hearing health care (HHC). A recent evaluation of a commercially available ...