... in the study. The hearing levels of the participants were determined. Static and dynamic postural stability and limits of stability (LOS) tests were performed in the absence of auditory stimuli, in the presence of spondee word lists at 70 dB(A) and in the presence of spondee+white noise (−6 dB signal-to-noise...

...; Antonio Della Volpe; Paolo Ruscito Introduction: Purpose of our study was to compare two competing methods of performing bisyllabic word speech audiometry for the detection of the 50% speech reception threshold in noise (SRT50). Methods: Classic method is performed submitting multiple word lists...

...Jonathan Flament; Daniele De Seta; Francesca Yoshie Russo; Julie Bestel; Olivier Sterkers; Evelyne Ferrary; Yann Nguyen; Isabelle Mosnier; Renato Torres Introduction: Auditory performance in noise of cochlear implant recipients can be assessed with the adaptive Matrix test (MT); however, when...

...Xu Jun Hu; Chi Chuen Lau Introduction: Noise can induce hearing loss and reduce speech understanding. The Acceptable Noise Level (ANL) test has been widely used in audiology. However, strategies used by listeners to determine ANLs are unclear. The current study evaluated the role of speech...

...Joel Lavinsky; Guilherme Kasperbauer; Ricardo F. Bento; Aline Mendonça; Juemei Wang; Amanda L. Crow; Hooman Allayee; Rick A. Friedman Background: Although several candidate-gene association studies have been conducted to investigate noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) in humans, most are underpowered...

...) in amplitude-modulated noise. We compared 2 spatial configurations: (1) speech presented to the CROS ear and noise to the CI ear (S CROS N CI ) and (2) the reverse (S CI N CROS ). Results: Compared with the use of CI only, CROS improved the SRT by 6.4 dB on average in the S CROS N CI configuration. In the S CI...

...Vagner Antonio Rodrigues Silva; Alexandre Caixeta Guimarães; Joel Lavinsky; Henrique Furlan Pauna; Arthur Menino Castilho; Agrício Nubiato Crespo Introduction: Noise-induced hearing loss is the most preventable cause of auditory impairment. Periodic audiometric evaluations are essential to monitor...

... of tinnitus cases and was found to be depending on the used intensity, length or types of sounds. Past research already stressed the impact of noise stimulation as well as the superiority of amplitude modulated (AM) pure tones at the individual tinnitus frequency for RI in tonal tinnitus. Recently a novel...

... by a single receiver, was evaluated in 14 postlingually deafened adults after 12 months of use. Speech perception was tested using French disyllabic words in quiet and in speech-shaped noise at +10 dB signal-to-noise ratio. Horizontal sound localization in quiet was tested using pink noise coming from 5...

...Joseph Kei; Damian Smith; Salimon Joseph; James Stopa; Soonsil Kang; Ross Darnell The effect of noise on auditory steady-state response (ASSR) has not been systematically studied, despite the fact that ASSR thresholds are sometimes measured in noisy environments. This study examined the effects...

...Ziv Paz; Sharon Freeman; Michal Horowitz; Haim Sohmer Exposure to intense noise stress can cause a permanent noise-induced hearing loss which is thought to be due to elevation of reactive oxygen species in excess of the inherent antioxidant mechanisms of the cell. However, preconditioning to low...

...Rachel Fraenkel; Sharon Freeman; Haim Sohmer This study was designed to test whether old rats show signs of presbyacusis and whether they would be either similarly or more or less susceptible to noise-induced hearing loss than young adult rats. Old (24 months) and young adult (3–4 months) Wistar...

...Richard A. Altschuler; Damon Fairfield; Younsook Cho; Elena Leonova; Ivor J. Benjamin; Josef M. Miller; Margaret I. Lomax Noise overstimulation will induce or influence intracellular molecular pathways in the cochlea. One of these is the ‘classical’ stress response pathway involving heat shock...

... to in the content or advertisements. Auditory pathway Cochlear nuclei Ion channels Acetylcholine Noise Auditory CNS Processing and Plasticity Audiol Neurootol 2001;6:161 166 Role of Biophysical Specialization in Cholinergic Modulation in Neurons of the Ventral Cochlear Nuclei Donata Oertel Kiyohiro...

...Rachel Fraenkel; Sharon Freeman; Haim Sohmer This study was designed to investigate the effect of various durations of noise exposure in animals on physiological responses from the cochlea which are also used clinically in humans: auditory brainstem response (ABR), transient evoked otoacoustic...

...Sharon Freeman; Roza Khvoles; Lily Cherny; Haim Sohmer There have been reports that the developing ear is more sensitive than the adult ear to noise-induced hearing loss. This was investigated by testing auditory function in rats, both electrophysiologically and histologically, following exposure...