Auditory processing efficiency and temporal resolution in children and adultsPenelope R Hill
University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
J Speech Lang Hear Res 47:1022-9. 2004
..Therefore, the differences in BM threshold between adults and children were not due to differences in temporal resolution but to reduced detection efficiency in the children...
- Birdsong and anthropogenic noise: implications and applications for conservation
Hans Slabbekoorn
Institute of Biology, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Mol Ecol 17:72-83. 2008
..activities all over the world has caused, on an evolutionary time scale, a sudden rise in especially low-pitched noise levels...
Key role of coupling, delay, and noise in resting brain fluctuationsGustavo Deco
Department of Computational Neuroscience, Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:10302-7. 2009
..In numerical simulation, we studied the dynamics of a simplified cortical network using 38 noise-driven (Wilson-Cowan) oscillators, which in isolation remain just below their oscillatory threshold...
Musical experience limits the degradative effects of background noise on the neural processing of soundAlexandra Parbery-Clark
Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
J Neurosci 29:14100-7. 2009
..parsing melodies from background harmonies, which can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise. To investigate the effect of musical experience on the neural representation of speech-in-noise, we compared ..
- Tuning out the noise: limbic-auditory interactions in tinnitus
Josef P Rauschecker
Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057 1460, USA
Neuron 66:819-26. 2010
..million people in the United States alone, and its incidence is rising due to an aging population and increasing noise exposure. Although several approaches for the alleviation of tinnitus exist, there is as of yet no cure...
- Anatomical and functional recovery of the goldfish (Carassius auratus) ear following noise exposure
Michael E Smith
Department of Biology and Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Exp Biol 209:4193-202. 2006
..However, regenerative capabilities following noise exposure have not been explored in fish...
- Noise-induced stress response and hearing loss in goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Michael E Smith
Department of Biology and Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Exp Biol 207:427-35. 2004
..to document the effects of such anthropogenic (human-generated) sounds on marine mammals, the effects of excess noise on fishes are poorly understood...
- Acoustic communication in noise: regulation of call characteristics in a New World monkey
Henrik Brumm
Freie Universitat Berlin, Institut fur Biologie, Verhaltensbiologie, Haderslebener Strasse 9, 12163 Berlin, Germany
J Exp Biol 207:443-8. 2004
This study on common marmosets Callithrix jacchus is the first to examine noise-dependent mechanisms of vocal plasticity in a New World monkey...
- Rapid formation of robust auditory memories: insights from noise
Trevor R Agus
Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS and Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Neuron 66:610-8. 2010
..Unbeknownst to listeners, some noise samples reoccurred randomly throughout an experimental block...
- A noisy spring: the impact of globally rising underwater sound levels on fish
Hans Slabbekoorn
Behavioural Biology, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE Leiden, The Netherlands
Trends Ecol Evol 25:419-27. 2010
..Here we call attention to the urgent need to study the role of sound in the lives of fish and to develop a better understanding of the ecological impact of anthropogenic noise.
- Ecology: Birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise
Hans Slabbekoorn
Behavioural Biology, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Nature 424:267. 2003
- Noise pollution changes avian communities and species interactions
Clinton D Francis
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 334 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Curr Biol 19:1415-9. 2009
..We evaluated conservation concerns that noise limits bird distributions and reduces nesting success via a natural experiment to isolate the effects of noise ..
- Effects of environmental noise exposure on ambulatory blood pressure in young adults
Ta Yuan Chang
Department of Occupational Safety and Health, College of Public Health, China Medical University, 91 Hsueh Shih Road, Taichung 40402, Taiwan, ROC
Environ Res 109:900-5. 2009
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that environmental noise exposure is associated with hypertension in middle-aged and older populations, but the relationship in the young subpopulation and between the genders is still unclear...
- Creatine and tempol attenuate noise-induced hearing loss
Shujiro B Minami
Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, 1301 E Ann Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0506, USA
Brain Res 1148:83-9. 2007
To define the role of free radical formation and potential energy depletion in noise induced hearing loss (NIHL), we measured the effectiveness of tempol (free radical scavenger) and creatine (enhances cellular energy storage) alone and ..
- Cortical mechanisms of speech perception in noise
Patrick C M Wong
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 51:1026-41. 2008
The present study examines the brain basis of listening to spoken words in noise, which is a ubiquitous characteristic of communication, with the focus on the dorsal auditory pathway.
- Nature of auditory processing disorder in children
David R Moore
Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK
Pediatrics 126:e382-90. 2010
..We tested the specific hypothesis that the presentation of auditory processing disorder (APD) is related to a sensory processing deficit...
- Musical experience and the aging auditory system: implications for cognitive abilities and hearing speech in noise
Alexandra Parbery-Clark
Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e18082. 2011
Much of our daily communication occurs in the presence of background noise, compromising our ability to hear. While understanding speech in noise is a challenge for everyone, it becomes increasingly difficult as we age...
- Neuroanatomical characteristics and speech perception in noise in older adults
Patrick C M Wong
The Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
Ear Hear 31:471-9. 2010
Previous research has attributed older adults' difficulty with perceiving speech in noise to peripheral hearing loss...
- Motor learning is optimally tuned to the properties of motor noise
Robert J van Beers
Department of Physics of Man, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
Neuron 63:406-17. 2009
..Crucial for this strategy is that motor noise arises partly centrally, in movement planning, and partly peripherally, in movement execution...
- Noise-driven stem cell and progenitor population dynamics
Martin Hoffmann
Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
PLoS ONE 3:e2922. 2008
..Herein, stochastic fluctuations are either suppressed or can trigger the transition, but they do not actually determine the attractor states...
- Parametric study of EEG sensitivity to phase noise during face processing
Guillaume A Rousselet
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging CCNi and Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
BMC Neurosci 9:98. 2008
..All stimuli had the same amplitude spectrum and were presented at 11 phase noise levels, varying from 0% to 100% in 10% increments, using a linear phase interpolation technique...
- Noise in the nervous system
A Aldo Faisal
Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, UK
Nat Rev Neurosci 9:292-303. 2008
b>Noise--random disturbances of signals--poses a fundamental problem for information processing and affects all aspects of nervous-system function...
- Hypertension and exposure to noise near airports: the HYENA study
Lars Jarup
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London, United Kingdom
Environ Health Perspect 116:329-33. 2008
An increasing number of people are exposed to aircraft and road traffic noise. Hypertension is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and even a small contribution in risk from environmental factors may have a major impact ..
- Early elevation of cochlear reactive oxygen species following noise exposure
K K Ohlemiller
Research Department, Central Institute for the Deaf, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Audiol Neurootol 4:229-36. 1999
..Considerable evidence suggests that ROS also mediate ototoxicant- and noise-induced cochlear injury, although most of this evidence is indirect...
- Auditory M50 and M100 responses to broadband noise: functional implications
Maria Chait
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program, University of Maryland, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Neuroreport 15:2455-8. 2004
..Here we report auditory evoked field data from three different studies employing wide-band noise stimuli...
- Impacts of chronic anthropogenic noise from energy-sector activity on abundance of songbirds in the boreal forest
Erin M Bayne
Integrated Landscape Management Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Conserv Biol 22:1186-93. 2008
..with increases in the activity of people with vehicles and equipment, which results in increases in anthropogenic noise. Anthropogenic noise may reduce habitat quality for many species, particularly those that rely on acoustic signals ..
- Evaluation of sLORETA in the presence of noise and multiple sources
Michael Wagner
Compumedics Neuroscan, Hamburg, Germany
Brain Topogr 16:277-80. 2004
..In this contribution, we evaluate the performance of the method under the presence of noise and with multiple, simultaneously active sources...
- Daytime noise predicts nocturnal singing in urban robins
Richard A Fuller
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
Biol Lett 3:368-70. 2007
Ambient noise interferes with the propagation of acoustic signals through the environment from sender to receiver...
- Habitat-dependent ambient noise: consistent spectral profiles in two African forest types
Hans Slabbekoorn
Center for Tropical Research, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 116:3727-33. 2004
..However, the natural environment is usually filled with competing sounds. Therefore, if ambient noise conditions are relatively constant, acoustic interference can drive evolutionary changes in animal signals...
- Noise overstimulation induces immediate early genes in the rat cochlea
Younsook Cho
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Brain Res Mol Brain Res 130:134-48. 2004
In mammals, exposure to intense noise produces a permanent hearing loss called permanent threshold shift (PTS), whereas a moderate noise produces only a temporary threshold shift (TTS)...
- Mapping the signal-to-noise-ratios of cortical sources in magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography
Daniel M Goldenholz
Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, USA
Hum Brain Mapp 30:1077-86. 2009
..We examined regional differences in signal-to-noise-ratios (SNRs) of cortical sources in MEG and EEG...
- Acoustical stress and hearing sensitivity in fishes: does the linear threshold shift hypothesis hold water?
Michael E Smith
Department of Biology and Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Exp Biol 207:3591-602. 2004
..Fish were exposed to 1-28 days of either quiet (110 dB re 1 microPa) or continuous white noise. First, we examined the effect of noise sound pressure level (SPL; 130, 140, 160 or 170 dB re 1 microPa) on ..
- Delayed production of free radicals following noise exposure
Daisuke Yamashita
Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Brain Res 1019:201-9. 2004
Reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species (ROS, RNS) formed in the inner ear in response to high-intensity noise are thought to play an important role in noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL)...
- Dorsal cochlear nucleus responses to somatosensory stimulation are enhanced after noise-induced hearing loss
S E Shore
Department of Otolaryngology, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Eur J Neurosci 27:155-68. 2008
..of DCN neurons to trigeminal and bimodal (trigeminal plus acoustic) stimulation were compared in normal and noise-damaged guinea pigs...
- Effect of noise exposure on blood-labyrinth barrier in guinea pigs
Mitsuya Suzuki
Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7 3 1, Bunkyo ku, 113 8655, Japan
Hear Res 164:12-8. 2002
The influence of noise exposure on the endothelial transport system in the cochlea was investigated using cationic polyethyleneimine (PEI), since systemically administered PEI passes through the capillary endothelial cell and attaches to ..
- Hearing illusory sounds in noise: the timing of sensory-perceptual transformations in auditory cortex
Lars Riecke
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Neuron 64:550-61. 2009
..mechanisms in the auditory system may restore a fragmented sound when a gap in this sound is rendered inaudible by noise to yield a continuity illusion...
- Amplification in the rehabilitation of unilateral deafness: speech in noise and directional hearing effects with bone-anchored hearing and contralateral routing of signal amplification
Li Mei Lin
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21287 0910, USA
Otol Neurotol 27:172-82. 2006
..What specific rehabilitative benefits are observed when the functional ear exhibits normal hearing versus moderate sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL)?..
- Adding insult to injury: cochlear nerve degeneration after "temporary" noise-induced hearing loss
Sharon G Kujawa
Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Neurosci 29:14077-85. 2009
..Results suggest that noise-induced damage to the ear has progressive consequences that are considerably more widespread than are revealed by ..
- Speech-perception-in-noise deficits in dyslexia
Johannes C Ziegler
Departement de Psychologie, Aix Marseille Universite, Marseille, France
Dev Sci 12:732-45. 2009
Speech perception deficits in developmental dyslexia were investigated in quiet and various noise conditions. Dyslexics exhibited clear speech perception deficits in noise but not in silence...
- Anthropogenic noise affects risk assessment and attention: the distracted prey hypothesis
Alvin Aaden Yim Hol Chan
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1606, USA
Biol Lett 6:458-61. 2010
Many studies have focused on the effects of anthropogenic noise on animal communication, but only a few have looked at its effect on other behavioural systems...
- Foraging bats avoid noise
Andrea Schaub
Zoological Institute, Department of Animal Physiology, University of Tubingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tubingen, Germany
J Exp Biol 211:3174-80. 2008
Ambient noise influences the availability and use of acoustic information in animals in many ways...
- Birds and anthropogenic noise: are urban songs adaptive?
Erwin Nemeth
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
Am Nat 176:465-75. 2010
In cities with intense low-frequency traffic noise, birds have been observed to sing louder and at a higher pitch...
- Frequency-specific modulation of population-level frequency tuning in human auditory cortex
Hidehiko Okamoto
Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Muenster, Malmedyweg 15, 48149 Muenster, Germany
BMC Neurosci 10:1. 2009
..random) under auditory focused attention by means of magnetoencephalography (MEG)...
- Age-related differences in gap detection: effects of task difficulty and cognitive ability
Kelly C Harris
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 135 Rutledge Ave, MSC 550, Charleston, SC 29425 5500, USA
Hear Res 264:21-9. 2010
..varied in task complexity but used identical stimuli: (1) gap location fixed at the beginning, middle, or end of a noise burst and (2) gap location varied randomly from trial to trial from the beginning, middle, or end of the noise...
- Change in prevalence of hearing loss in US adolescents
Josef Shargorodsky
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
JAMA 304:772-8. 2010
..Hearing loss is common and, in young persons, can compromise social development, communication skills, and educational achievement...
- Human auditory steady-state responses
Terence W Picton
Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, University of Toronto, Canada
Int J Audiol 42:177-219. 2003
..These responses are useful for objectively evaluating auditory thresholds, assessing suprathreshold hearing, and monitoring the state of arousal during anesthesia...
- Correlation between co-exposures to noise and air pollution from traffic sources
H W Davies
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Occup Environ Med 66:347-50. 2009
Both air and noise pollution associated with motor vehicle traffic have been associated with cardiovascular disease...
- Hydrogen in drinking water attenuates noise-induced hearing loss in guinea pigs
Ying Lin
Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Xi an, China
Neurosci Lett 487:12-6. 2011
..received normal water or hydrogen-rich water for 14 days before they were exposed to 115 dB SPL 4-kHz octave band noise for 3h...
- Environmental noise retards auditory cortical development
Edward F Chang
W M Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Science 300:498-502. 2003
..Here we show that rearing infant rat pups in continuous, moderate-level noise delayed the emergence of adultlike topographic representational order and the refinement of response selectivity ..
- A multisensory cortical network for understanding speech in noise
Christopher W Bishop
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, CA 95618, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1790-805. 2009
..Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we show that understanding speech-in-noise is supported by a network of brain areas including the left superior parietal lobule, the motor/premotor cortex, ..
- Blockade of interleukin-6 signaling suppressed cochlear inflammatory response and improved hearing impairment in noise-damaged mice cochlea
Kenichiro Wakabayashi
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinju ku, Tokyo 160 8582, Japan
Neurosci Res 66:345-52. 2010
..studies have shown inflammatory responses in the inner ear co-occur with various damaging conditions including noise-induced hearing loss...
- Estimation and interpretation of 1/falpha noise in human cognition
Eric Jan Wagenmakers
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychon Bull Rev 11:579-615. 2004
..provided preliminary evidence of the presence of a particular form of long-range serial dependence known as 1/f noise. It has been argued that long-range dependence has been largely ignored in mainstream cognitive psychology even ..
- Theories and models for 1/f(beta) noise in human movement science
Kjerstin Torre
University Montpellier 1, EA 2991, Motor Efficiency and Deficiency, 700 Avenue du Pic Saint Loup, Montpellier 34090, France
Hum Mov Sci 28:297-318. 2009
Human motor behavior is often characterized by long-range, slowly decaying serial correlations or 1/f(beta) noise. Despite its prevalence, the role of the 1/f(beta) phenomenon in human movement research has been rather modest and unclear...
- Free radical scavengers vitamins A, C, and E plus magnesium reduce noise trauma
Colleen G Le Prell
Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, 1301 East Ann Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0506, USA
Free Radic Biol Med 42:1454-63. 2007
Free radical formation in the cochlea plays a key role in the development of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL)...
- The human 'pitch center' responds differently to iterated noise and Huggins pitch
Deborah A Hall
MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University Park, Nottingham, UK
Neuroreport 18:323-7. 2007
..We report a direct comparison between iterated ripple noise and Huggins pitch in which we reveal a different pattern of auditory cortical activation associated with each ..
- Environmental noise, sleep and health
Alain Muzet
FORENAP, BP 27, Rouffach, France
Sleep Med Rev 11:135-42. 2007
Unlike other physical ambient factors (i.e. electromagnetic fields or air pollutants), noise is perceived by a specific system (auditory system) in humans...
- Context-dependent encoding in the human auditory brainstem relates to hearing speech in noise: implications for developmental dyslexia
Bharath Chandrasekaran
Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
Neuron 64:311-9. 2009
..encoding in the auditory brainstem correlated positively with behavioral indices of speech perception in noise. The ability to sharpen representation of repeating elements is crucial to speech perception in noise, since it ..
- Noise and health in the urban environment
S Stansfeld
Department of Psychiatry, Queen Mary and Westfield College, St Bartholomew s and The Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rev Environ Health 15:43-82. 2000
b>Noise, including noise from transport, industry, and neighbors, is a prominent feature of the urban environment. This paper reviews the effects of environmental noise on the non-auditory aspects of health in urban settings...
- Aging and cortical mechanisms of speech perception in noise
Patrick C M Wong
The Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2240 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 3540, United States
Neuropsychologia 47:693-703. 2009
..Younger and older subjects identified single words in quiet and in two multi-talker babble noise conditions (SNR 20 and -5dB)...
- Autonomic arousals related to traffic noise during sleep
Barbara Griefahn
Institute for Occupational Physiology at Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany
Sleep 31:569-77. 2008
To analyze the heart rate (HR) response to traffic noise during sleep and the influence of acoustic parameters, time of night, and momentary sleep stage on these responses.
- Spectral composition of concurrent noise affects neuronal sensitivity to interaural time differences of tones in the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus
Ida Siveke
Division of Neurobiology, Department Biology II, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen, Germany
J Neurophysiol 98:2705-15. 2007
..in the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus (DNLL) while presenting pure tones at different ITDs embedded in noise. We found that increasing levels of concurrent white noise suppressed the maximal response rate to tones with ..
- Differential expression of apoptosis-related genes in the cochlea of noise-exposed rats
B H Hu
Center for Hearing and Deafness, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
Neuroscience 161:915-25. 2009
Exposure to intense noise induces apoptosis in hair cells in the cochlea...
- Perception and annoyance due to wind turbine noise--a dose-response relationship
Eja Pedersen
Department of Environmental Medicine, Goteborg University, P O Box 414, SE 405 30 Goteborg, Sweden
J Acoust Soc Am 116:3460-70. 2004
..The aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of annoyance due to wind turbine noise and to study dose-response relationships...
- Individual differences in the masking level difference with a narrowband masker at 500 or 2000 Hz
Emily Buss
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 121:411-9. 2007
The masking level difference (MLD) for a narrowband noise masker is associated with marked individual differences. This pair of studies examines factors that might account for these individual differences...
- Effects of masking noise on vowel and sibilant contrasts in normal-hearing speakers and postlingually deafened cochlear implant users
Joseph S Perkell
Speech Communication Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 121:505-18. 2007
..in speech production was investigated by examining speakers' phonemic contrasts produced under increases in the noise to signal ratio (N/S)...
- Psychophysical estimates of nonlinear cochlear processing in younger and older listeners
RENE H GIFFORD
Psychoacoustics Laboratory, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, P O Box 870102, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 0102, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 118:3823-33. 2005
..The results did, however, consistently demonstrate an age-related increase in the susceptibility to forward masking...
- Binaural jitter with cochlear implants, improved interaural time-delay sensitivity, and normal hearing
Richard J M van Hoesel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:E51; author reply E52. 2008
- Binaural jitter improves interaural time-difference sensitivity of cochlear implantees at high pulse rates
Bernhard Laback
Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Wohllebengasse 12 14, A 1040 Vienna, Austria
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:814-7. 2008
..rapidly varying fine structure of a sound is most important for sound localization and for understanding speech in noise. Cochlear implants (CIs), neural prosthetic devices that restore hearing in the profoundly deaf, are increasingly ..
- The binaural temporal window in adults and children
Joseph W Hall
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 121:401-10. 2007
..for a brief, interaurally out-of-phase (Spi) 500 Hz pure tone signal masked by bandpass, 100-2000 Hz Gaussian noise. In one set of conditions, the masker was consistently either in phase (No) or out of phase (Npi)...
- Estimates of basilar-membrane nonlinearity effects on masking of tones and speech
Judy R Dubno
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Ear Hear 28:2-17. 2007
The aim of this experiment was to assess the contribution of cochlear nonlinearities to speech recognition in noise for individuals with normal hearing and a range of quiet thresholds...
- Development and the role of internal noise in detection and discrimination thresholds with narrow band stimuli
Emily Buss
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 120:2777-88. 2006
The experiments reported here examine the role of internal noise in the detection of a tone in narrow band noise and intensity discrimination for narrow band stimuli in school-aged children as compared to adults...
- Modeling distortion product otoacoustic emission input/output functions using segmented regression
Bryan Goldman
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 120:2764-76. 2006
..emissions (DPOAEs) are low-level acoustic signals, the detection of which involves extraction from a background of noise. Boege and Janssen [J. Acoust. Soc. Am...
- Audiometry: masking
Mohamed A Hamid
Cleveland Hearing and Balance Center, Beachwood, Ohio, USA
Ear Nose Throat J 85:646-7. 2006
- Quantitative measures of air-gun pulses recorded on sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) using acoustic tags during controlled exposure experiments
P T Madsen
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 120:2366-79. 2006
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- Acceptable noise level as a predictor of hearing aid use
Anna K Nabelek
Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 37996 0740, USA
J Am Acad Audiol 17:626-39. 2006
Acceptable noise level (ANL) measures a listener's reaction to background noise while listening to speech...
- Encoding of illusory continuity in primary auditory cortex
Christopher I Petkov
Center for Neuroscience and Section of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Neuron 54:153-65. 2007
..Similarly, when a sound of interest (a "foreground" sound) is interrupted (occluded) by loud noise, the auditory system restores the occluded information...
- Comparison of behavioral and auditory brainstem response measures of threshold shift in rats exposed to loud sound
Henry E Heffner
Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio 43606, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 124:1093-104. 2008
..Behavioral and ABR thresholds were obtained for tones or noise before and after exposure to loud sound...
- The effect of noise-induced sloping high-frequency hearing loss on the gap-response in the inferior colliculus and auditory cortex of guinea pigs
Shan Kai Yin
The Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital, Otorhinolaryngology Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200233, China
Hear Res 239:126-40. 2008
..These results strongly indicate that a high-frequency hearing loss exerted an off-channel impact on temporal processing in the low-frequency region of the auditory system...
- Audiovisual perception of speech in noise and masked written text
Adriana A Zekveld
EMGO Institute, ENT Audiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ear Hear 29:99-111. 2008
The aim of this study was to examine the support obtained from degraded visual information in the comprehension of speech in noise.
- The amplitude sensitivity of mouse inferior collicular neurons in the presence of weak noise
Jia Tang
College of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, Hubei, PRC
Chin J Physiol 50:187-98. 2007
Natural auditory environment consists of multiple sound sources that are embedded in ambient strong and weak noise. For effective sound communication and signal analysis, animals must somehow extract biologically relevant signals from ..
- Effect of masker modulation depth on speech masking release
Dan Gnansia
Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, UMR CNRS 8158, Universite Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saint Peres, 75006 Paris, France
Hear Res 239:60-8. 2008
..listeners using nonsense Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCV) stimuli embedded in a steady-state or fluctuating noise masker and presented at a fixed, global signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) yielding 50% correct identification for steady ..
- Effects of periodic masker interruption on the intelligibility of interrupted speech
Nandini Iyer
Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 122:1693. 2007
..presence of competing sounds, they are quite good at extracting information at instances when the local signal-to-noise ratio of the target is most favorable...
- [Discrimination of spectral patterns of sound signals in conditions of interfering noise]
A Ia Supin
Ross Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova 93:576-91. 2007
..In conditions of diotic presentation (parallel to both ears), FRP markedly decreases on- or low-frequency noise markedly decreases FRP...
- The effect of a precursor on growth of forward masking
Vidya Krull
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 2038, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 123:4352-7. 2008
..Changes in masking following a precursor were larger than would be predicted by additivity of masking. The observed decrease in gain may be consistent with activation of the medial olivocochlear reflex by the precursor...
- Speech understanding in quiet and in noise with the bone-anchored hearing aids Baha Compact and Baha Divino
Martin Kompis
Department of ENT, Head, Neck and Cranio Maxillo Facial Surgery, Inselspital, University of Berne, Switzerland
Acta Otolaryngol 127:829-35. 2007
Speech understanding is better with the Baha Divino than with the Baha Compact in competing noise from the rear. No difference was found for speech understanding in quiet...
- Preceding weak noise sharpens the frequency tuning and elevates the response threshold of the mouse inferior collicular neurons through GABAergic inhibition
Xin Wang
College of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, People s Republic of China
Brain Res 1167:80-91. 2007
..The present study examines how weak noise may affect the auditory sensitivity of neurons in the central nucleus of the mouse inferior colliculus (IC) which ..
- An examination of speech recognition in a modulated background and of forward masking in younger and older listeners
RENE H GIFFORD
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
J Speech Lang Hear Res 50:857-64. 2007
To compare speech intelligibility in the presence of a 10-Hz square-wave noise masker in younger and older listeners and to relate performance to recovery from forward masking.
- Using a signal cancellation technique to assess adaptive directivity of hearing aids
Yu Hsiang Wu
Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 122:496-511. 2007
..using a "jammer" signal, presented from a second loudspeaker rotating with the DMHA, that simulates a noise source and freezes the polar pattern...
- Sound quality characteristics of refrigerator noise in real living environments with relation to psychoacoustical and autocorrelation function parameters
Shin ichi Sato
School of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
J Acoust Soc Am 122:314-25. 2007
..and autocorrelation function (ACF) parameters were employed to describe the temporal fluctuations of refrigerator noise during starting, transition into/from the stationary phase and termination of operation...
- Using genetic algorithms with subjective input from human subjects: implications for fitting hearing aids and cochlear implants
Deniz Baskent
Starkey Hearing Research Center, Berkeley, California 94704, USA
Ear Hear 28:370-80. 2007
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- The benefit method: fitting hearing aids in noise
I Svard
Department of Paediatrics, Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, , Sweden
Noise Health 7:12-23. 2005
..Speech recognition scores in noise (SRSN) using monosyllabic words presented under different background noise levels were evaluated on 21 randomly ..
- An objective measure for selecting microphone modes in OMNI/DIR hearing aid circuits
Ken W Grant
Army Audiology and Speech Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307 5001, USA
Ear Hear 29:199-213. 2008
..of the listening environment, including the relative locations of the listener, signal sources, and noise sources; and whether reverberation is present...
- Detection and F0 discrimination of harmonic complex tones in the presence of competing tones or noise
Christophe Micheyl
Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 4307, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 120:1493-505. 2006
..to "hear out" the pitch of a target harmonic complex tone (HCT) was tested with simultaneous HCT or noise maskers, all bandpass-filtered into the same spectral region (1200-3600 Hz)...
- Frequency-modulation (FM) technology as a method for improving speech perception in noise for individuals with multiple sclerosis
M Samantha Lewis
VA National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland VAMC, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
J Am Acad Audiol 17:605-16. 2006
..was to evaluate the effects of frequency-modulation (FM) technology utilization on speech perception in noise for adults with and without MS...
- The effect of presentation level and compression characteristics on sentence recognition in modulated noise
Henrik L Olsen
Unit of Technical and Clinical Audiology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd, Sweden
Int J Audiol 43:283-94. 2004
The effect of fast-acting compression on speech recognition in fully modulated (FUM) noise in listeners with normal and impaired hearing was investigated in two experiments We wanted to determine the relationships between the benefit ..
- Pure tone audiograms and possible aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss in belugas (Delphinapterus leucas)
James J Finneran
U S Navy Marine Mammal Program, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego, Code 2351, 53560 Hull Street, San Diego, California 92152 5001, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 117:3936-43. 2005
..Similar ages, ancestry, and environmental conditions between subjects, but a history of ototoxic drug administration in only one subject, suggest that the observed hearing loss was a result of the aminoglycoside antibiotic amikacin...
- Varying feedback to evaluate detection strategies: the detection of a tone added to noise
Virginia M Richards
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 3:209-21. 2002
The effectiveness of rewarding strategies associated with different models of detection was evaluated for a tone-in-noise detection task...
- Rippled-spectrum resolution dependence on masker-to-probe ratio
Alexander Ya Supin
Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 33 Leninsky Prosp, 117071 Moscow, Russia
Hear Res 204:191-9. 2005
Resolution of rippled sound spectrum (probe) in the presence of additional noise band (masker) was studied as a function of masker-to-probe ratio and sound level in normal listeners. The probe bands were 0...
- Are the perceptual effects of spectral smearing influenced by speaker gender?
Liat Kishon-Rabin
Department of Communication Disorders, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
J Basic Clin Physiol Pharmacol 15:41-55. 2004
..Spectral smearing was carried out by multiplying the speech signal by a series of low-passed white noise samples, causing tonal components in the signal to be replaced by noise...
- Masker phase effects in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners: evidence for peripheral compression at low signal frequencies
Andrew J Oxenham
Research Laboratory of Electronics, and Harvard MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Acoust Soc Am 116:2248-57. 2004
..on phase-related masking differences were not well simulated in normal-hearing listeners by an additive white noise, suggesting that the effects of hearing impairment are not simply due to reduced sensation level...
- Preoperative functional assessment of auditory cortex in adult cochlear implant users
P S Roland
Department of Otolaryngology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75390-9035, USA
Laryngoscope 111:77-83. 2001
..study of three cochlear implant candidates (pure-tone averages of 90 dB HL or greater bilaterally and hearing in noise test [HINT] performances of <40%) in which regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was assessed using single photon ..
