The importance of binaural hearing for noise valuation

The importance of binaural hearing for noise valuation

In a project that has been funded by the German Ministery of Research and Technology (BMFT) fundamental questions of noise valuation have been addressed by an interdisciplinary research consortium. The aim of the project was to provide knowledge that will lead to a new, binaural and aurally-adequate measurement technique which can especially be used for the valuation of the effects of noise for...

Importance of binaural hearing.

An essential task for the central auditory pathways is to parse the auditory messages sent by the two cochleae into auditory objects, the segregation and localisation of which constitute an important means of separating target signals from noise and competing sources. When hearing losses are too asymmetric, the patients face a situation in which the monaural exploitation of sound messages signi...

Combined Noise Reduction and Coherence Reshaping for Binaural Hearing Aids

Noise reduction algorithms in hearing aids are crucial to improve speech understanding in background noise for hearing impaired persons. For binaural hearing aids, algorithms that exploit the microphone signals from both the left and the right hearing aid are considered to be promising techniques for noise reduction, because in addition to spectral information spatial information can be exploit...

An electrophysiological measure of binaural hearing in noise.

BACKGROUND A common complaint of patients with (central) auditory processing disorder is difficulty understanding speech in noise. Because binaural hearing improves speech understanding in compromised listening situations, quantifying this ability in different levels of noise may yield a measure with high clinical utility. PURPOSE To examine binaural enhancement (BE) and binaural interaction ...

Robust binaural noise-reduction strategies with binaural-hearing-aid constraints: design, analysis and practical considerations