It is well-known that we benefit from binaural hearing when listening to the speech of interest
amongst noise, where spatial cues may release our auditory perception from masking …

Humans have evolved the unique capacity to efficiently communicate using the spoken
word. Hearing plays a key role as a receiver in this process and dysfunction leads to …

For hearing aid users to experience everyday benefit from their hearing aids, research,
development, and fitting of hearing aids must be performed using evaluation methods that …

Tests of hearing function are typically conducted in conditions very different from those in
which people need to hear and communicate. Even when test conditions are more similar …

Laboratory and clinical-based assessments of speech intelligibility must evolve to better
predict real-world speech intelligibility. One way of approaching this goal is to develop …

Objectives: First, to evaluate the effect of laboratory-based test realism on speech
intelligibility outcomes of cochlear implant users. Second, to conduct an exploratory …

Early bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) may enhance attention to speech, and reduce
cognitive load in noisy environments. However, it is sometimes difficult to measure speech …

A perceptual study was conducted to investigate the perceived accuracy of two sound-field
reproduction approaches when experienced by hearing-impaired (HI) and normal-hearing …

Measures of “aided” speech intelligibility (SI) for listeners wearing hearing aids (HAs) are
commonly obtained using rather artificial acoustic stimuli and spatial configurations …

Speech perception involves detecting, discriminating, and recognizing a continuous stream
of speech sounds. Research in speech perception seeks to understand how human …