Creating clarity in noisy environments by using deep learning in hearing aids

AH Andersen, S Santurette, MS Pedersen… - Seminars in …, 2021 - thieme-connect.com
Hearing aids continue to acquire increasingly sophisticated sound-processing features
beyond basic amplification. On the one hand, these have the potential to add user benefit …

Extending subcortical eeg responses to continuous speech to the sound-field

FL Bachmann, JP Kulasingham… - Trends in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The auditory brainstem response (ABR) is a valuable clinical tool for objective hearing
assessment, which is conventionally detected by averaging neural responses to thousands …

The effects of data quantity on performance of temporal response function analyses of natural speech processing

J Mesik, M Wojtczak - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, temporal response function (TRF) analyses of neural activity recordings
evoked by continuous naturalistic stimuli have become increasingly popular for …

Improving EEG-based decoding of the locus of auditory attention through domain adaptation

J Wilroth, B Bernhardsson, F Heskebeck… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. This paper presents a novel domain adaptation (DA) framework to enhance the
accuracy of electroencephalography (EEG)-based auditory attention classification …

Predictors for estimating subcortical EEG responses to continuous speech

JP Kulasingham, FL Bachmann, K Eskelund, M Enqvist… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Perception of sounds and speech involves structures in the auditory brainstem that rapidly
process ongoing auditory stimuli. The role of these structures in speech processing can be …

Cortical encoding of phonetic onsets of both attended and ignored speech in hearing impaired individuals

S Carta, E Aličković, J Zaar, AL Valdés, GM Di Liberto - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Hearing impairment alters the sound input received by the human auditory system, reducing
speech comprehension in noisy multi-talker auditory scenes. Despite such difficulties, neural …

Novel bias-reduced coherence measure for EEG-based speech tracking in listeners with hearing impairment

O Keding, E Alickovic, MA Skoglund… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In the literature, auditory attention is explored through neural speech tracking, primarily
entailing modeling and analyzing electroencephalography (EEG) responses to natural …

Speech to noise ratio improvement induces nonlinear parietal phase synchrony in hearing aid users

P Shahsavari Baboukani, C Graversen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objectives Comprehension of speech in adverse listening conditions is challenging for
hearing-impaired (HI) individuals. Noise reduction (NR) schemes in hearing aids (HAs) have …

Neural decoding of the speech envelope: Effects of intelligibility and spectral degradation

AD MacIntyre, RP Carlyon, T Goehring - Trends in Hearing, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
During continuous speech perception, endogenous neural activity becomes time-locked to
acoustic stimulus features, such as the speech amplitude envelope. This speech–brain …

Hearing-aid directionality improves neural speech tracking in older hearing-impaired listeners

EB Petersen - Trends in Hearing, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, a growing body of literature has explored the effect of hearing impairment on
the neural processing of speech, particularly related to the neural tracking of speech …