Adaptation is an essential feature of auditory neurons, which reduces their responses to
unchanging and recurring sounds and allows their response properties to be matched to the …

Hearing impairment in older adulthood puts people at risk of communication difficulties,
disengagement from listening, and social withdrawal. Here, we develop a model of listening …

Many aging adults experience some form of hearing problems that may arise from auditory
peripheral damage. However, it has been increasingly acknowledged that hearing loss is …

Instantaneous brain states have consequences for our sensation, perception, and
behaviour. Fluctuations in arousal and neural desynchronization likely pose perceptually …

Tinnitus is a phantom auditory sensation in the absence of external sounds, while
hyperacusis is an atypical sensitivity to external sounds that leads them to be perceived as …

Listening in noisy or complex sound environments is difficult for individuals with normal
hearing and can be a debilitating impairment for those with hearing loss. Extracting …

Aging listeners often experience difficulties in perceiving temporally complex acoustic cues
in noisy environments. These difficulties likely have neurophysiological contributors from …

Artificial intelligence (AI) based synthesized speech has become almost human-like,
ubiquitous in everyday live (eg, smart phones, grocery self-checkouts), and relatively easy to …

Dining establishments are an essential part of the social experience. However, they are
often characterized by high levels of background noise, which represents a barrier to …

Neural tracking of spoken speech is considered a potential clinical biomarker for speech-
processing difficulties, but the reliability of neural speech tracking is unclear. Here, younger …