Relating hearing loss and executive functions to hearing aid users' preference for, and speech recognition with, different combinations of binaural noise reduction and microphone directionality

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Neher, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Individual differences; Personalized treatment; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEARING AID; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROPHONE; MICROPHONE DIRECTIONALITY; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE REDUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; PURE TONE HEARING LOSS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND ANALYSIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VERY ELDERLY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84920590146     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00391     Document Type: Article

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