Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing

Front Matter....Pages i-xxix
Effects of Age and Hearing Loss on the Processing of Auditory Temporal Fine Structure....Pages 1-8
Aging Effects on Behavioural Estimates of Suppression with Short Suppressors....Pages 9-17
Contributions of Coding Efficiency of Temporal-Structure and Level Information to Lateralization Performance in Young and Early-Elderly Listeners....Pages 19-28
Investigating the Role of Working Memory in Speech-in-noise Identification for Listeners with Normal Hearing....Pages 29-36
The Contribution of Auditory and Cognitive Factors to Intelligibility of Words and Sentences in Noise....Pages 37-45
Do Hearing Aids Improve Affect Perception?....Pages 47-55
Suitability of the Binaural Interaction Component for Interaural Electrode Pairing of Bilateral Cochlear Implants....Pages 57-64
Binaural Loudness Constancy....Pages 65-72
Intelligibility for Binaural Speech with Discarded Low-SNR Speech Components....Pages 73-81
On the Contribution of Target Audibility to Performance in Spatialized Speech Mixtures....Pages 83-91
Optimization of a Spectral Contrast Enhancement Algorithm for Cochlear Implants Based on a Vowel Identification Model....Pages 93-104
Roles of the Contralateral Efferent Reflex in Hearing Demonstrated with Cochlear Implants....Pages 105-114
Deactivating Cochlear Implant Electrodes Based on Pitch Information for Users of the ACE Strategy....Pages 115-123
Speech Masking in Normal and Impaired Hearing: Interactions Between Frequency Selectivity and Inherent Temporal Fluctuations in Noise....Pages 125-132
Effects of Pulse Shape and Polarity on Sensitivity to Cochlear Implant Stimulation: A Chronic Study in Guinea Pigs....Pages 133-142
Assessing the Firing Properties of the Electrically Stimulated Auditory Nerve Using a Convolution Model....Pages 143-153
Modeling the Individual Variability of Loudness Perception with a Multi-Category Psychometric Function....Pages 155-164
Auditory fMRI of Sound Intensity and Loudness for Unilateral Stimulation....Pages 165-174
Tinnitus- and Task-Related Differences in Resting-State Networks....Pages 175-187
The Role of Conduction Delay in Creating Sensitivity to Interaural Time Differences....Pages 189-196
Objective Measures of Neural Processing of Interaural Time Differences....Pages 197-205
Minimum Audible Angles Measured with Simulated Normally-Sized and Oversized Pinnas for Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Test Subjects....Pages 207-217
Moving Objects in the Barn Owl’s Auditory World....Pages 219-227
Change Detection in Auditory Textures....Pages 229-239
The Relative Contributions of Temporal Envelope and Fine Structure to Mandarin Lexical Tone Perception in Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder....Pages 241-248
Interaction of Object Binding Cues in Binaural Masking Pattern Experiments....Pages 249-256
Speech Intelligibility for Target and Masker with Different Spectra....Pages 257-266
Dynamics of Cochlear Nonlinearity....Pages 267-273
Responses of the Human Inner Ear to Low-Frequency Sound....Pages 275-284
Suppression Measured from Chinchilla Auditory-Nerve-Fiber Responses Following Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Adaptive-Tracking and Systems-Identification Approaches....Pages 285-295
Does Signal Degradation Affect Top–Down Processing of Speech?....Pages 297-306
The Effect of Peripheral Compression on Syllable Perception Measured with a Hearing Impairment Simulator....Pages 307-314
Towards Objective Measures of Functional Hearing Abilities....Pages 315-325
Connectivity in Language Areas of the Brain in Cochlear Implant Users as Revealed by fNIRS....Pages 327-335
Isolating Neural Indices of Continuous Speech Processing at the Phonetic Level....Pages 337-345
Entracking as a Brain Stem Code for Pitch: The Butte Hypothesis....Pages 347-354
Can Temporal Fine Structure and Temporal Envelope be Considered Independently for Pitch Perception?....Pages 355-362
Locating Melody Processing Activity in Auditory Cortex with Magnetoencephalography....Pages 363-369
Studying Effects of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on Hearing and Auditory Scene Analysis....Pages 371-379
Functional Organization of the Ventral Auditory Pathway....Pages 381-388
Neural Segregation of Concurrent Speech: Effects of Background Noise and Reverberation on Auditory Scene Analysis in the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus....Pages 389-397
Audio Visual Integration with Competing Sources in the Framework of Audio Visual Speech Scene Analysis....Pages 399-408
Relative Pitch Perception and the Detection of Deviant Tone Patterns....Pages 409-417
Do Zwicker Tones Evoke a Musical Pitch?....Pages 419-426
Speech Coding in the Midbrain: Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss....Pages 427-435
Sources of Variability in Consonant Perception and Implications for Speech Perception Modeling....Pages 437-446
On Detectable and Meaningful Speech-Intelligibility Benefits....Pages 447-455
Individual Differences in Behavioural Decision Weights Related to Irregularities in Cochlear Mechanics....Pages 457-465
On the Interplay Between Cochlear Gain Loss and Temporal Envelope Coding Deficits....Pages 467-475
Frequency Tuning of the Efferent Effect on Cochlear Gain in Humans....Pages 477-484