External degradations in incoming speech reduce understanding, and hearing impairment
further compounds the problem. While cognitive mechanisms alleviate some of the …

The auditory system consists of an intricate set of connections interposed between
hierarchically arranged nuclei. The ascending pathways carrying sound information from the …

The brain, using expectations, linguistic knowledge, and context, can perceptually restore
inaudible portions of speech. Such top-down repair is thought to enhance speech …

Purpose This dual-aim study was intended to develop and validate a new fitting paradigm
for over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. Aim 1 was undertaken to create a limited set of …

In noisy listening conditions, intelligibility of degraded speech can be enhanced by top-down
restoration. Cochlear implant (CI) users have difficulty understanding speech in noisy …

Cognitive skills, such as processing speed, memory functioning, and the ability to divide
attention, are known to diminish with aging. The present study shows that, despite these …

In many situations, listeners with sensorineural hearing loss demonstrate reduced spatial
release from masking compared to listeners with normal hearing. This deficit is particularly …

In realistic listening environments, speech perception requires grouping together audible
fragments of speech, filling in missing information, and segregating the glimpsed target from …

Not all of the variance in speech-recognition performance of cochlear implant (CI) users can
be explained by biographic and auditory factors. In normal-hearing listeners, linguistic and …

Perceptual differences in voice cues, such as fundamental frequency (F0) and vocal tract
length (VTL), can facilitate speech understanding in challenging conditions. Yet, we …