Open AccessBenefit From Directional Microphone Hearing Aids: Objective and Subjective Evaluations
Author(s) -
Hee Sung Park,
Il Joon Moon,
Jin Sun,
Ji Eun Choi,
Yang Sun Cho,
Sung Hwa Hong
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
clinical and experimental otorhinolaryngology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2005-0720
pISSN - 1976-8710
DOI - 10.3342/ceo.2015.8.3.237
Subject(s) - hearing aid , audiology , mode (computer interface) , noise (video) , hearing loss , medicine , significant difference , standard deviation , microphone , computer science , statistics , mathematics , telecommunications , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics) , operating system , sound pressure
The aims of this study were to find and compare the effect of directional (DIR) processing of two different hearing aids via both subjective and objective methods, to determine the association between the results of the subjective and objective evaluations, and to find out individual predictive factors influencing the DIR benefit.