Hearing Response to Sweeping Sound in Bastard Halibut <i>Paralichthys olivaceus</i>

Sound Classification in Hearing Instruments

A variety of algorithms intended for the new generation of hearing aids is presented in this thesis. The main contribution of this work is the hidden Markov model (HMM) approach to classifying listening environments. This method is efficient and robust and well suited for hearing aid applications. This thesis shows that several advanced classification methods can be implemented in digital heari...

Of Sound and Hearing

A method to remove differences in frequency response between commercial hearing aids to allow direct comparison of the sound quality of hearing-aid features.

GOAL We want to remove differences in frequency response between different commercial hearing aids so that we can compare the sound quality of signal processing features from different hearing-aid in a future paired-comparison set-up. More specifically, we want to control for the confounding effects of the linear hearing aid response when evaluating nonlinear processing. This article presents a...

Response growth with sound level in auditory-nerve fibers after noise-induced hearing loss.

People with sensorineural hearing loss are often constrained by a reduced acoustic dynamic range associated with loudness recruitment; however, the neural correlates of loudness and recruitment are still not well understood. The growth of auditory-nerve (AN) activity with sound level was compared in normal-hearing cats and in cats with a noise-induced hearing loss to test the hypothesis that AN...

Effect of sound classification by neural networks in the recognition of human hearing

In this paper, we focus on two basic issues: (a) the classification of sound by neural networks based on frequency and sound intensity parameters (b) evaluating the health of different human ears as compared to of those a healthy person. Sound classification by a specific feed forward neural network with two inputs as frequency and sound intensity and two hidden layers is proposed. This process...