The topic of compression has been discussed quite extensively in the last 20 years (eg,
Braida et al., 1982;,;;; and 2002;;;;; Verschuure et al., 1996;). However, the latest …

Temporal modulation transfer functions were obtained using sinusoidal carriers for four
normally hearing subjects and three subjects with mild to moderate cochlear hearing loss …

Many hearing-aid wearers have difficulties understanding speech in reverberant noisy
environments. This study evaluated the effects of reverberation and noise on speech …

Purpose A reduction in hearing sensitivity is often considered to be a normal age-related
change. Recent studies have revisited prior ways of thinking about sensory changes over …

Over 25 million people in the United States have some form of hearing loss, yet less than
25% of them wear a hearing aid. Several reasons have been cited for the unpopularity of the …

Buus and Florentine [J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. 3, 120–139 (2002)] have proposed that
loudness recruitment in cases of cochlear hearing loss is caused partly by an abnormally …

Objective: Traditionally in the United Kingdom, children with severe and profound hearing
loss have been fitted with linear, analog hearing aids. Fast-acting, wide-dynamic-range …

Abstract Fast-acting, wide-dynamic-range compression (WDRC) has been shown to give
better discrimination of soft specch and shouted speech than linear amplification for …

Objective: The purpose was to investigate the effects of hearing-loss and fast-acting
compression on speech intelligibility and two measures of temporal modulation sensitivity …

Objectives: The objective of this experiment was to examine the contributions of audibility to
the ability to perceive a gap in noise for children and adults. Sensorineural hearing loss …