Open AccessEffect of Audibility and Suprathreshold Deficits on Speech Recognition for Listeners With Unilateral Hearing Loss
Author(s) -
Tim J. M. Bost,
Niek J. Versfeld,
S. Theo Goverts
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ear and hearing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.577
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1538-4667
pISSN - 0196-0202
DOI - 10.1097/aud.0000000000000685
Subject(s) - quiet , audiology , hearing loss , consonant , speech perception , psychology , sensorineural hearing loss , noise (video) , vowel , word recognition , presbycusis , speech recognition , perception , medicine , computer science , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , political science , law , image (mathematics) , physics , reading (process) , quantum mechanics
We examined the influence of impaired processing (audibility and suprathreshold processes) on speech recognition in cases of sensorineural hearing loss. The influence of differences in central, or top-down, processing was reduced by comparing the performance of both ears in participants with a unilateral hearing loss (UHL). We examined the influence of reduced audibility and suprathreshold deficits on speech recognition in quiet and in noise.