The nature of pitch and its neural coding have been studied for over a century. A popular
debate has revolved around the question of whether pitch is coded via ''place''cues in the …

Are musicians better able to understand speech in noise than non-musicians? Recent
findings have produced contradictory results. Here we addressed this question by asking …

People with sensorineural hearing loss have substantial difficulty understanding speech
under degraded listening conditions. Behavioral studies suggest that this difficulty may be …

Individuals with sensorineural hearing loss often report frustration with speech being loud
but not clear, especially in background noise. Despite advanced digital technology, hearing …

Aging results in a loss of sensory function, and the effects of hearing impairment can be
especially devastating due to reduced communication ability. Older adults with hearing loss …

This study presents a major update and full evaluation of a speech intelligibility (SI)
prediction model previously introduced by Scheidiger, Carney, Dau, and Zaar [(2018), Acta …

There is much debate on how the spectrotemporal modulations of speech (or its
spectrogram) are encoded in the responses of the auditory nerve, and whether speech …

Older adults frequently complain that while they can hear a person talking, they cannot
understand what is being said; this difficulty is exacerbated by background noise. Peripheral …

Speech processing inherently relies on the perception of specific, rapidly changing spectral
and temporal acoustic features. Advanced acoustic perception is also integral to musical …

Within the cochlea, broadband sounds like speech and music are filtered into a series of
narrowband signals, each with a relatively slowly varying envelope (ENV) imposed on a …