Spatial hearing and hearing aids

MA Akeroyd, WM Whitmer - Hearing aids, 2016 - Springer
… would occur only if the listener was in free space with unoccluded pinnae and a source that
was … ILDs than those that occur when standing in free space away from any reflective surface. …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial hearing and hearing aids

MA Akeroyd, WM Whitmer - ENT & audiology news, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Spatial hearing is a central part of everyday listening. The ability to … spatial hearing
performance by hearing-impaired listeners is considerably degraded, and generally hearing aids

Listening through hearing aids affects spatial perception and speech intelligibility in normal-hearing listeners

J Cubick, JM Buchholz, V Best, M Lavandier… - The Journal of the …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
… Inspired by Cubick and Dau (2016), the current study investigated the potential effect of
degraded spatial cues when listening through HAs on SRTs in spatially separated masking …

Spatial benefit of bilateral hearing aids

JB Ahlstrom, AR Horwitz, JR Dubno - Ear and hearing, 2009 - journals.lww.com
… , hearing aid … were spatially separated; likewise, spatial benefit improved significantly from
1.8 to 3.6 kHz but only in the aided condition. No further improvement in hearing aid or spatial

Does bilateral hearing aid fitting improve spatial hearing ability: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Kumar, S Nayak, V Kanagokar… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… measures of spatial hearing ability improve with bilateral HA fitting compared to the unaided
hearing condition?”. We hypothesize that bilateral HA fitting improves spatial hearing ability …

Benefit from spatial separation of multiple talkers in bilateral hearing-aid users: Effects of hearing loss, age, and cognition

T Neher, T Behrens, S Carlile, C Jin… - … Journal of Audiology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
spatial hearing abilities of bilateral hearing-aid users in multi-talker situations, 20 subjects
received fittings configured to preserve acoustic cues salient for spatial hearing… or spatially

Directional hearing aids

TA Ricketts - Trends in Amplification, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
… Directional hearing aids are designed to improve SNR based on the spatial location of the
signal of interest relative to unwanted signals. Even though the magnitude of the improvement …

Spatial release from masking in normal-hearing children and children who use hearing aids

TYC Ching, E Van Wanrooy, H Dillon… - The Journal of the …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
hearing. This study aimed to determine the ability of children (3–12 yr of age) to use spatial
… Fifty-eight children (31 with normal hearing and 27 with impaired hearing who use bilateral …

Localization and spatial discrimination in children and adolescents with moderate sensorineural hearing loss tested without their hearing aids

S Meuret, AA Ludwig, D Predel, B Staske… - Audiology and …, 2018 - karger.com
… The present study investigated spatial hearing in children and adolescents with moderate
… normal-hearing children. All children with SNHL had been wearing hearing aids since early …

The effects of hearing impairment and aging on spatial processing

H Glyde, S Cameron, H Dillon, L Hickson… - … and hearing, 2013 - journals.lww.com
… the effect of hearing impairment on spatial-processing ability. … to a moderately severe
sensorineural hearing impairment, were … that hearing impairment was highly correlated with …