Functionality of hearing aids: State-of-the-art and future model-based solutions

B Kollmeier, J Kiessling - International journal of audiology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
A review about technical and perceptual factors in hearing aid technology, research and
development is provided, covering current commercial solutions, underlying models of …

Considerations for fitting cochlear implants bimodally and to the single-sided deaf

SH Pieper, N Hamze, S Brill, S Hochmuth… - Trends in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
When listening with a cochlear implant through one ear and acoustically through the other,
binaural benefits and spatial hearing abilities are generally poorer than in other bilaterally …

Restoring perceived loudness for listeners with hearing loss

D Oetting, V Hohmann, JE Appell, B Kollmeier… - Ear and …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Normalizing perceived loudness is an important rationale for gain adjustments in
hearing aids. It has been demonstrated that gains required for restoring normal loudness …

Development and evaluation of a loudness validation method with natural signals for hearing aid fitting

M Exter, T Jansen, L Hartog, D Oetting - Trends in Hearing, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Loudness is a fundamental dimension of auditory perception. When hearing impairment
results in a loudness deficit, hearing aids are typically prescribed to compensate for this …

[HTML][HTML] Degraded visual and auditory input individually impair audiovisual emotion recognition from speech-like stimuli, but no evidence for an exacerbated effect …

MJ de Boer, T Jürgens, FW Cornelissen, D Başkent - Vision Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Emotion recognition requires optimal integration of the multisensory signals from vision and
hearing. A sensory loss in either or both modalities can lead to changes in integration and …

Benefit of Hearing-Aid Amplification and Signal Enhancement for Speech Reception in Complex Listening Situations

T Jansen, L Hartog, D Oetting, V Hohmann… - Trends in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
A major goal of hearing-device provision is to improve communication in daily life. However,
there is still a large gap between the user's daily-life aided listening experience and hearing …

An empirical category-ratio scale for evaluating the subjective intensity of noise based on the comparison of estimated magnitudes and categories

Y Huang, D Li - Applied Acoustics, 2020 - Elsevier
In psychophysical studies, the methods of magnitude estimation (ME) and rating scale (RS)
are often employed to obtain the subjective intensity of noise. Research interest has usually …

Auditory and visual integration for emotion recognition and compensation for degraded signals are preserved with age

MJ de Boer, T Jürgens, D Başkent… - Trends in …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Since emotion recognition involves integration of the visual and auditory signals, it is likely
that sensory impairments worsen emotion recognition. In emotion recognition, young adults …

Common Audiological Functional Parameters (CAFPAs): statistical and compact representation of rehabilitative audiological classification based on expert knowledge

M Buhl, A Warzybok, MR Schädler… - … journal of audiology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: As a step towards objectifying audiological rehabilitation and providing
comparability between different test batteries and clinics, the Common Audiological …

Computational models of binaural processing

M Dietz, G Ashida - Binaural Hearing: With 93 Illustrations, 2021 - Springer
Computational modeling has a central role in understanding the mechanisms behind
experimental observations. This chapter describes how models of binaural processing are …