Purpose: The present study aimed to identify the overall patterns of spatial hearing in a sample population geriatric wearing aid an actual clinical setting and investigate while paying attention aging effects separation on informational masking (IM) target speech common types noise everyday life.Methods: Nine participants (mean age: 68.9 ± 9.6) aids participated. abilities were assessed by mea...

noise interference with employee’s speech communication is considered as one of the noise pollution effect in any workplace. these interferences can disrupt communication of necessary and vital data between individuals. and as a result can cause anything from a slight irritant to a serious safety hazard involving accident or even fatality. this study was focused on the analysis of the human err...

Listening to speech in noise is effortful, particularly for people with hearing impairment. While it is known that effort is related to a complex interplay between bottom-up and top-down processes, the cognitive and neurophysiological mechanisms contributing to effortful listening remain unknown. Therefore, a reliable physiological measure to assess effort remains elusive. This study aimed to d...

Room acoustic indicators of intelligibility have focused on the effects of temporal smearing of speech by reverberation and masking by diffuse ambient noise. In the presence of a discrete noise source, these indicators neglect the binaural listener's ability to separate target speech from noise. Lavandier and Culling [(2010). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 387-399] proposed a model that incorporates ...

OBJECTIVE The main objective was to investigate the effect of linguistic abilities (lexical-access ability and vocabulary size) on different measures of speech-in-noise recognition in normal-hearing listeners with various levels of language proficiency. DESIGN Speech reception thresholds (SRTs) were measured for sentences in steady-state (SRTstat) and fluctuating noise (SRTfluc), and for digi...

Unlike prior studies with bilateral cochlear implant users which considered only one interferer, the present study considered realistic listening situations wherein multiple interferers were present and in some cases originating from both hemifields. Speech reception thresholds were measured in bilateral users unilaterally and bilaterally in four different spatial configurations, with one and t...