INTRODUCTION Different types of prosthesis are available for stapes replacement. Because there has been no published report on the efficacy of the titanium soft-clip vs the fluoroplastic Causse loop Teflon piston, we compared short-term hearing results of both types of prosthesis in patients who underwent stapedotomy due to otosclerosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 57 ears were included ...

OBJECTIVES Cochlear implants are a standard therapy for deafness, yet the ability of implanted patients to understand speech varies widely. To better understand this variability in outcomes, the authors used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to image activity within regions of the auditory cortex and compare the results to behavioral measures of speech perception. DESIGN The authors studi...

The general goal of this thesis is to increase comparability, accuracy, and diagnostical benefit of sentence intelligibility tests within one language and to give suggestions for realizing comparable sentence intelligibility tests across languages. Most sentence intelligibility tests are either composed of meaningful (everyday) sentences or syntactically fixed, but semantically unpredictable se...

It is often assumed that the benefit of hearing aids is not primarily reflected in better speech performance, but that it is reflected in less effortful listening in the aided than in the unaided condition. Before being able to assess such a hearing aid benefit the present study examined how processing load while listening to masked speech relates to inter-individual differences in cognitive ab...

Data routinely collected in audiological evaluations were used to predict speech discrimination scores in patients with varying degrees of sensorineural hearing loss. Puretone threshold at 2000 Hz and age squared (age') gave the best prediction in the stepwise multiple regression analysis. Slope of the hearing loss did not aid in the prediction. Expected speech discrimination scores for patient...

Normal-hearing older adults often experience increased difficulties understanding speech in noise. In addition, they benefit less from amplitude fluctuations in the masker. These difficulties may be attributed to an age-related auditory temporal processing deficit. However, a decline in cognitive processing likely also plays an important role. This study examined the relative contribution of de...

Background: Many elderly individuals complain of difficulty in understanding speech in noise despite having normal hearing thresholds. According to previous studies, auditory training leads to improvement in speech-in-noise perception, but these studies did not consider the etiology, so their results cannot be generalized. The present study aimed at investigating the effectiveness of envelope-b...

Recommended by Jörn Altmann This paper presents a simplified method for signal level clearance evaluation in each place of signal reception up to threshold for a given portable TV receiver device. It describes briefly the structure of transmission system considering the " 1Seg " structure of ISDB-T. The preliminary laboratory test was made before the field tests to verify the main features of h...