Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation

Neuroplasticity of speech-in-noise processing in older adults assessed by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

This study uses fNIRS to assess neuroplasticity in speech-in-noise processing in older adults before and after training, finding neural changes preceding behavioral improvements.

Degradation in Binaural and Spatial Hearing, and Auditory Temporal Processing Abilities, as a Function of Aging

This study examines age-related declines in spatial hearing and auditory temporal processing abilities, finding that performance deficits are not solely due to hearing thresholds but also to central auditory processing changes.

Anti-phasic oscillatory development for speech and noise processing in cochlear implanted toddlers

The paper shows that cochlear implanted toddlers' brains develop functionally in response to hearing experiences, with speech and noise processing showing anti-phasic oscillatory development that predicts behavioral improvement.

Hearing function moderates age-related changes in brain morphometry in the HCP Aging cohort

This study examines how hearing function affects age-related changes in brain structure using HCP-A data, finding that poorer hearing is linked to greater ventricle expansion and reduced cortical thickness in sensory regions.

Reduction of right-hemispheric auditory cortex activity in response to speech in more experienced paediatric cochlear implant users

This study examines how cochlear implant experience affects cortical speech processing, finding reduced right-hemispheric activity in more experienced users compared to less experienced and normal hearing controls.

Disentangling the effects of hearing loss and age on amplitude modulation frequency selectivity

This study investigates how age and hearing loss independently affect amplitude modulation frequency selectivity using a simultaneous AM masking paradigm.

Longitudinal Observations of the Effects of Ischemic Stroke on Binaural Perception

This study tracks binaural perception changes in ischemic stroke patients over time, showing individual recovery patterns rather than consistent lesion-based effects.

Resilience and vulnerability of neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants

This study examines neural speech tracking in children with cochlear implants, finding resilience in early auditory processing but vulnerability in higher-level speech processing.

The effects of aging and hearing impairment on listening in noise

This study investigates how aging and hearing impairment affect listening in noise using behavioral and neurophysiological measures, finding that aging alone does not significantly impair sound source detection, but mild hearing loss does.

Evaluating Cochlear Implant Stimulation Strategies Through Wide-field Calcium Imaging of the Auditory Cortex

This study uses wide-field calcium imaging to evaluate cochlear implant stimulation strategies in rats, finding that simultaneous pulse timing improves neural response discrimination.

Cochlear dysfunction as an early biomarker for cognitive decline in normal hearing and mild hearing loss

The paper investigates cochlear dysfunction as an early biomarker for cognitive decline in elderly individuals with normal or mild hearing loss, finding that DPOAE measurements correlate with cognitive and brain atrophy indicators.

CompHEAR: A Customizable and Scalable Web-Enabled Auditory Performance Evaluation Platform for Cochlear Implant Sound Processing Research

CompHEAR enables large-scale auditory experiments for cochlear implant sound processing research, supporting up to 10,000 concurrent users and facilitating global collaboration.

Phase coding in phoneme processing slows with age

This study examines how age and hearing loss affect neural processing of phonemes, finding that temporal delay of EEG responses increases with age and high-frequency hearing loss, correlating with speech comprehension.

Neural envelope tracking predicts speech intelligibility and hearing aid benefit in children with hearing loss

This study shows neural envelope tracking can predict speech intelligibility and hearing aid benefit in children with hearing loss, correlating with behavioral measures and showing improved tracking with hearing aids.

Impact of Peripheral Auditory Structure on the Development of Auditory-Language Network in Children with Profound Sensorineural Hearing Loss

This study maps the auditory-language network in children with profound SNHL using MRI, showing the language pathway's sensitivity to peripheral auditory conditions and proposing a pre-surgical evaluation framework.

Is Inappropriate Pulse Timing Responsible for Poor Binaural Hearing with Cochlear Implants?

This study shows that pulse timing ITDs dominate binaural hearing in cochlear implant users, suggesting arbitrary pulse timing impairs spatial hearing.

Neural attentional filters and behavioural outcome follow independent individual trajectories over the adult life span

The paper shows that neural filtering and listening behaviour follow independent trajectories in aging individuals, with no predictive relationship between neural filtering metrics and behavioural change.

Eye movements decrease during effortful speech listening

The paper demonstrates that eye movements decrease during effortful speech listening, offering a new objective measure of listening effort compared to pupillometry.

Cortical over-representation of phonetic onsets of ignored speech in hearing impaired individuals

This study investigates how hearing-impaired individuals process ignored speech in noisy environments using EEG, finding over-representation of phonetic onsets in ignored speech.

Perception of Speech Turn Dynamics is preserved in Congenitally Deaf children with Cochlear Implants

This study assesses speech perception and anticipatory behavior in children with cochlear implants using ecological listening tasks, finding preserved gaze anticipatory behavior despite poorer speech perception.

Delta-band neural envelope tracking predicts speech intelligibility in noise in preschoolers

This study shows that delta-band neural envelope tracking correlates with speech intelligibility in noise in preschoolers, offering an objective measure for assessing speech in difficult-to-test populations.

Neural correlates of individual differences in speech-in-noise performance in a large cohort of cochlear implant users

The paper identifies neural correlates of speech-in-noise performance in cochlear implant users using EEG and clinical speech tests, finding ERP amplitudes predict word recognition tasks better than traditional measures.

Interaural time difference sensitivity under binaural cochlear implant stimulation persists at high pulse rates up to 900 pps

This study shows that neonatally deafened rats with cochlear implants can detect interaural time differences (ITDs) up to 900 pulses per second, challenging the notion that high pulse rates limit binaural hearing in humans.

Cortical-brainstem interplay during speech perception in older adults with and without hearing loss

This study examines how cortical-brainstem interactions affect speech perception in older adults with and without hearing loss, finding reduced modulation in those with hearing loss.

Brain plasticity and auditory spatial adaptation in patients with unilateral hearing loss

The paper identifies adaptive strategies in unilateral hearing loss patients using MMN and finds cortical differences in sound processing between groups.

A Study of Event-Related Potentials during Monaural and Bilateral Hearing in Single Sided Deaf Cochlear Implant Users

This study examines how cochlear implants (CI) and normal hearing ears (NHE) interact in SSD users during auditory tasks, finding that CI improves neural responses but not task performance in free-field conditions.

Event-Related Potentials of Single Sided Deaf Cochlear Implant Users - Using a Semantic Oddball Paradigm in Noise

This study investigates how cochlear implants affect speech in noise perception in single-sided deafness patients using EEG and a semantic oddball paradigm in noise.

Locus coeruleus activity improves cochlear implant performance

This study shows that locus coeruleus activity predicts and enhances cochlear implant performance in deafened rats through behavioral and neural responses.

Auditory biases in cognitive assessment: Insights from hearing-loss simulation for dementia screening

This study simulates hearing loss in normal-hearing individuals to show that auditory factors can bias cognitive test performance, leading to an underestimation of cognitive functioning in dementia screening.

Neural responses to movie naturalistic stimuli are related to listening demand in cochlear implant users

This study examines how neural responses to naturalistic speech correlate with listening demand in cochlear implant users, finding that speech tracking and alpha rhythms relate to perceived listening effort.