This paper describes a new noise suppression scheme with the goal of improving speech-in-noise perception for hearingimpaired listeners. Following the work of Tsoukalas et al. (1997) [4], Arehart et al (2003) [3] implemented and evaluated a noise suppression algorithm based on an approach that used the auditory masked threshold in conjunction with a version of spectral subtraction to adjust the...

Blast exposure is an increasingly significant health hazard and can have a range of debilitating effects, including auditory dysfunction and traumatic brain injury. To assist in the development of effective treatments, a greater understanding of the mechanisms of blast-induced auditory damage and dysfunction, especially in the central nervous system, is critical. To elucidate this area, we subj...

Selectively attending to task-relevant sounds whilst ignoring background noise is one of the most amazing feats performed by the human brain. Here, we studied the underlying neural mechanisms by recording magnetoencephalographic (MEG) responses of 14 healthy human subjects while they performed a near-threshold auditory discrimination task vs. a visual control task of similar difficulty. The aud...

Functional and anatomical studies suggest that acoustic signals are processed hierarchically in auditory cortex. Although most regions of acoustically responsive cortex are not tonotopically organized, all previous electrophysiological investigations of interfield interactions have only examined tonotopically represented areas. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the functional ...

Hearing is an extremely complex phenomenon, involving a large number of interrelated variables that are difficult to measure in vivo. In order to investigate such process under simplified and well-controlled conditions, models of sound transmission have been developed through many decades of research. The value of modeling the hearing system is not only to explain the normal function of the hea...

The ascending and descending projections of the central auditory system form multiple tonotopic loops. This study specifically examines the tonotopic pathway from the auditory thalamus to the auditory cortex and then to the auditory midbrain in mice. We observed the changes of receptive fields in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus of the midbrain evoked by focal electrical stimulati...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to observe the relationship between V extraction rate and threshold value of electrically evoked auditory brainstem response (EABR) waves in artificial cochlear implantation, in order to optimize EABR parameters for improving auditory rehabilitation. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty patients without residual hearing and treated with artificial cochl...