Open AccessEffects of Hearing Loss on School-Aged Children’s Ability to Benefit From F0 Differences Between Target and Masker Speech
Author(s) -
Mary Flaherty,
Jenna Browning,
Emily Buss,
Lori J. Leibold
Publication year - 2021
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.0000000000000979
Subject(s) - audiology , hearing loss , context (archaeology) , sensorineural hearing loss , two alternative forced choice , psychology , speech perception , medicine , perception , cognitive psychology , biology , paleontology , neuroscience
The objectives of the study were to (1) evaluate the impact of hearing loss on children's ability to benefit from F0 differences between target/masker speech in the context of aided speech-in-speech recognition and (2) to determine whether compromised F0 discrimination associated with hearing loss predicts F0 benefit in individual children. We hypothesized that children wearing appropriately fitted amplification would benefit from F0 differences, but they would not show the same magnitude of benefit as children with normal hearing. Reduced audibility and poor suprathreshold encoding that degrades frequency discrimination were expected to impair children's ability to segregate talkers based on F0.