Complaints of noise annoyance are increasing in several areas of the working environment, particularly in open offices, schools and kindergartens. The noise levels seldom reach noise levels with risk of noise induced hearing loss, but the cause emerges from a complex interplay between the level and the character of the noise, the acoustics of the workplace, psychosocial stress-factors, and indi...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of sensorineural hearing loss on the ability to make use of fine temporal information and to evaluate the relation between this ability and the ability to recognize speech. DESIGN Fourteen observers with normal hearing and 12 observers with sensorineural hearing loss were tested on open-set word recognition and on psychophysical ta...

Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI) affects 25-40% of individuals over the age of 65. Despite the high prevalence of this complex trait, ARHI is still poorly understood. We hypothesized that variance in hearing ability with age is largely determined by genetic factors. We collected audiologic data on females of Northern European ancestry and compared different audiogram representations. A web...