Age-related decline of speech perception

U Hoppe, T Hocke, H Iro - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hearing loss is one of the most common disorders worldwide. It affects communicative
abilities in all age groups. However, it is well known that elderly people suffer more …

Development and verification of non-supervised smartphone-based methods for assessing pure-tone thresholds and loudness perception

C Xu, L Schell-Majoor, B Kollmeier - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The benefit of using smartphones for hearing tests in a non-supervised, rapid, and
contactless way has drawn a lot of interest, especially if supra-threshold measures are …

Spectral and binaural loudness summation of equally loud narrowband signals in single-sided-deafness and bilateral cochlear implant users

H Hu, L Hartog, B Kollmeier, SD Ewert - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies on loudness perception of binaural broadband signals in hearing impaired
listeners found large individual differences, suggesting the use of such signals in hearing …

Integrating audiological datasets via federated merging of Auditory Profiles

S Saak, D Oetting, B Kollmeier, M Buhl - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20765, 2024 - arxiv.org
Audiological datasets contain valuable knowledge about hearing loss in patients, which can
be uncovered using data-driven, federated learning techniques. Our previous approach …

Toward an individual binaural loudness model for hearing aid fitting and development

I Pieper, M Mauermann, B Kollmeier… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The individual loudness perception of a patient plays an important role in hearing aid
satisfaction and use in daily life. Hearing aid fitting and development might benefit from …

Loudness functions for patients with functional hearing loss

S Shiraki, T Sato, R Ikeda, J Suzuki… - … Journal of Audiology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives To compare the loudness functions (loudness ratings as a function of sound
level) obtained from patients diagnosed as having functional hearing loss (FHL) with those …

[HTML][HTML] GMS Zeitschrift für Audiologie—Audiological Acoustics

J Zimmer, L Hartog, D Oetting, H Pöntynen, M Dietz - egms.de
Loudness perception of binaural broadband sounds shows larger individual variations for
hearing-impaired subjects after narrowband loudness compensation than for normal …