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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 ...
Towards more cognitively challenging speech tests
(2013)
Speech tests are often poor predictors of the
performance of individual listeners in the real world. This
may be in part because they do not adequately engage
all of the auditory and cognitive processes involved in
real ...
The relationship between functional hearing and verbal reasoning
(Swedish Institute for Disability Research, 2015)
Verbal reasoning is an indicator of the ability to think constructively in everyday life, and relies on both fluid (working memory processing) and crystallised (knowledge-based judgement) skills. Recent data (Rönnberg et ...
Connecting evidence and reducing the effect of occupational hearing loss
(National Health and Medicine Research Council, 2015)
Careful – they can’t hear you
(National Centre for Farmer Health, 2013)