Underlying neural mechanisms of degraded speech intelligibility following noise-induced hearing loss: The importance of distorted tonotopy

S Parida, MG Heinz - Hearing research, 2022 - Elsevier
Listeners with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) have substantial perceptual deficits,
especially in noisy environments. Unfortunately, speech-intelligibility models have limited …

Speech perception and hearing aids

P Souza - Hearing aids, 2016 - Springer
Poor speech perception nearly always accompanies sensorineural hearing loss. Although
listeners with poorer auditory thresholds experience more difficulty, there is considerable …

Psychophysiological analyses demonstrate the importance of neural envelope coding for speech perception in noise

J Swaminathan, MG Heinz - Journal of Neuroscience, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Understanding speech in noisy environments is often taken for granted; however, this task is
particularly challenging for people with cochlear hearing loss, even with hearing aids or …

Speech categorization reveals the role of early-stage temporal-coherence processing in auditory scene analysis

V Viswanathan, BG Shinn-Cunningham… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Temporal coherence of sound fluctuations across spectral channels is thought to aid
auditory grouping and scene segregation. Although prior studies on the neural bases of …

Modulation masking and fine structure shape neural envelope coding to predict speech intelligibility across diverse listening conditions

V Viswanathan, HM Bharadwaj… - The Journal of the …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A fundamental question in the neuroscience of everyday communication is how scene
acoustics shape the neural processing of attended speech sounds and in turn impact …

Dual coding of frequency modulation in the ventral cochlear nucleus

N Paraouty, A Stasiak, C Lorenzi, L Varnet… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Frequency modulation (FM) is a common acoustic feature of natural sounds and is known to
play a role in robust sound source recognition. Auditory neurons show precise stimulus …

Spectrally specific temporal analyses of spike-train responses to complex sounds: A unifying framework

S Parida, H Bharadwaj, MG Heinz - PLOS Computational Biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Significant scientific and translational questions remain in auditory neuroscience
surrounding the neural correlates of perception. Relating perceptual and neural data …

Computational modeling of the human compound action potential

Y Alamri, SG Jennings - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The auditory nerve (AN) compound action potential (CAP) is an important tool for assessing
auditory disorders and monitoring the health of the auditory periphery during surgical …

Speech perception in noise with a harmonic complex excited vocoder

TH Churchill, A Kan, MJ Goupell, A Ihlefeld… - Journal of the …, 2014 - Springer
A cochlear implant (CI) presents band-pass-filtered acoustic envelope information by
modulating current pulse train levels. Similarly, a vocoder presents envelope information by …

Temporal-envelope reconstruction for hearing-impaired listeners

C Lorenzi, N Wallaert, D Gnansia, AC Leger… - Journal of the …, 2012 - Springer
Recent studies suggest that normal-hearing listeners maintain robust speech intelligibility
despite severe degradations of amplitude-modulation (AM) cues, by using temporal …