Integrating cognitive and peripheral factors in predicting hearing-aid processing effectiveness

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4458-4469

  Kates, James M ^a,b   Arehart, Kathryn H ^a,b   Souza, Pamela E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE ABILITY; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; FREQUENCY COMPRESSION; HIGH-FREQUENCY LOSS; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; NETWORK FRAMEWORKS; NONLINEAR PROCESSING; PROCESSING STRATEGIES;

NEURAL NETWORKS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUDITION;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATIENT; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COGNITION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NOISE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PERSONS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84890156827     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4824700     Document Type: Article

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