Impaired binaural hearing in adults: a selected review of the literature

FJ Gallun - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite over 100 years of study, there are still many fundamental questions about binaural
hearing that remain unanswered, including how impairments of binaural function are related …

Audiovisual time-to-collision estimation for accelerating vehicles: the acoustic signature of electric vehicles impairs pedestrians' judgments

M Wessels, S Kröling, D Oberfeld - … research part F: traffic psychology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
To avoid collisions, pedestrians intending to cross a road need to accurately estimate the
time-to-collision (TTC) of an approaching vehicle. For TTC estimation, auditory information …

On the limitations of sound localization with hearing devices

F Denk, SD Ewert, B Kollmeier - The Journal of the Acoustical Society …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Limited abilities to localize sound sources and other reduced spatial hearing capabilities
remain a largely unsolved issue in hearing devices like hearing aids or hear-through …

Listening through hearing aids affects spatial perception and speech intelligibility in normal-hearing listeners

J Cubick, JM Buchholz, V Best, M Lavandier… - The Journal of the …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Cubick and Dau [(2016). Acta Acust. Acust. 102, 547–557] showed that speech reception
thresholds (SRTs) in noise, obtained with normal-hearing listeners, were significantly higher …

Head movements allow listeners bilaterally implanted with cochlear implants to resolve front-back confusions

MT Pastore, SJ Natale, WA Yost, MF Dorman - Ear and hearing, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: We report on the ability of patients fit with bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) to
distinguish the front-back location of sound sources both with and without head movements …

Spatial rehabilitation using virtual auditory space training paradigm in individuals with sensorineural hearing impairment

KV Nisha, AK Uppunda, RT Kumar - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose The present study aimed to quantify the effects of spatial training using virtual
sources on a battery of spatial acuity measures in listeners with sensorineural hearing …

Visual and auditory spatial localization in younger and older adults

YZ Xiong, DA Addleman, NA Nguyen… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Visual and auditory localization abilities are crucial in real-life tasks such as navigation and
social interaction. Aging is frequently accompanied by vision and hearing loss, affecting …

Development and validation of a questionnaire for assessing visual and auditory spatial localization abilities in dual sensory impairment

Y Xiong, JP Nemargut, C Bradley, W Wittich… - Scientific reports, 2024 - nature.com
Spatial localization is important for social interaction and safe mobility, and relies heavily on
vision and hearing. While people with vision or hearing impairment compensate with their …

The effects of hearing impairment, age, and hearing aids on the use of self-motion for determining front/back location

WO Brimijoin, MA Akeroyd - Journal of the American Academy …, 2016 - thieme-connect.com
Background: There are two cues that listeners use to disambiguate the front/back location of
a sound source: high-frequency spectral cues associated with the head and pinnae, and self …

Development of New Open-Set Speech Material for Use in Clinical Audiology with Speakers of British English

M Keshavarzi, M Salorio-Corbetto, T Reichenbach… - Audiology …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: The Chear open-set performance test (COPT), which uses a carrier phrase
followed by a monosyllabic test word, is intended for clinical assessment of speech …