Voice Emotion Recognition by Mandarin-Speaking Children with Cochlear Implants
Conclusions:
Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants could have significant deficits in voice emotion recognition tasks compared with their normally hearing peers and can benefit from the exaggerated prosody of child-directed speech. The effects of age at cochlear implantation, speech and language development, and cognition could play an important role in voice emotion perception by Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Somatosensory Tinnitus Diagnosis: Diagnostic Value of Existing Criteria
Conclusion:
The simultaneous onset or increase and decrease of tinnitus and neck or jaw pain and the influence of certain postures are most suited to use as a single criterion for identifying patients with a somatic influence on their tinnitus. On the other hand, the absence of neck pain or tension in the neck extensor muscles is valid criterion to rule out a somatic influence. Additional analysis is needed to identify clusters of symptoms and criteria to further aid ST diagnosis. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Beyond Audition: Psychosocial Benefits of Music Training for Children With Hearing Loss
Conclusions:
The present study provides initial evidence that music training has a positive effect on at least some psychosocial and quality of life outcomes for children with hearing loss. As they are at a greater risk of poorer psychosocial and quality of life outcomes, these findings are cause for cautious optimism. Children with hearing loss should be encouraged to participate in group-based musical activities. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Text Captioning Buffers Against the Effects of Background Noise and Hearing Loss on Memory for Speech
Conclusions:
Collectively, these findings strongly suggest that the simultaneous presentation of text can offset the negative effects of effortful listening on speech memory. Critically, captioning benefits extended from immediate word recall to long-term sentence recognition memory, a benefit that was observed not only for older adults with hearing loss but also young normal-hearing listeners. These findings suggest that the text captioning benefit to memory is robust and has potentially wide applications for supporting speech listening in acoustically challenging environments. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Novel Approaches to Measure Spatial Release From Masking in Children With Bilateral Cochlear Implants
Objectives:
To investigate the role of auditory cues for spatial release from masking (SRM) in children with bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs) and compare their performance with children with normal hearing (NH). To quantify the contribution to speech intelligibility benefits from individual auditory cues: head shadow, binaural redundancy, and interaural differences; as well as from multiple cues: SRM and binaural squelch. To assess SRM using a novel approach of adaptive target-masker angular separation, which provides a more functionally relevant assessment in realistic complex auditory environments.
Design:
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Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Effect of Masker Head Orientation, Listener Age, and Extended High-Frequency Sensitivity on Speech Recognition in Spatially Separated Speech
Conclusions:
Masker head orientation affects speech-in-speech recognition in children and adults, particularly those with normal EHF thresholds. This is important because masker talkers do not all face the listener under most natural listening conditions, and assuming a midline orientation would tend to overestimate the effect of spatial separation. The benefits associated with EHF audibility for speech-in-speech recognition may warrant clinical evaluation of thresholds above 8 kHz. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Five-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study Determines the Critical Intervals for Periodic Audiometric Testing Based on 5070 Tests of Metallurgical Workers Exposed and Nonexposed to Noise
Conclusions:
The progression of pure-tone averages at 3, 4, and 6 kHz differed between workers exposed and nonexposed to noise. Noise-exposed workers had a significant progressive worsening of audiometric thresholds after 3 years of employment. This study identified, in an unprecedented way, two critical periods of noise exposure: in the first year and after the third year of employment in a noisy environment. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Understanding Factors That Cause Tinnitus: A Mendelian Randomization Study in the UK Biobank
Conclusions:
Tinnitus data from the UK Biobank confirm established associated factors in the literature. Genetic analysis determined causal relationships with several factors that expand the understanding of the etiology of tinnitus and can direct future pathways of clinical care and research. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
X-linked Malformation Deafness: Neurodevelopmental Symptoms Are Common in Children With IP3 Malformation and Mutation in POU3F4
Conclusions:
While cochlear implantation is a feasible alternative for children with IP3 malformation deafness, co-occurring neurodevelopmental anomalies, such as attention deficit hyperactivity or developmental language disorder, and mental ill-health issues require an extensive and consistent multidisciplinary team approach during childhood to support their overall habilitation. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
The Daily Experience of Subjective Tinnitus: Ecological Momentary Assessment Versus End-of-Day Diary
Objective:
Traditional methods of self-report assessments are susceptible to bias (i.e., memory, recall, and recency). Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) may curb these biases by repeated momentary assessment of the participant throughout the day. High costs and participant burden may, however, impede the use of EMA. End-of-day diary (EDD) provides an attractive alternative to EMA, though no direct comparison has been performed in the tinnitus field.
Design:
Four thousand seven-hundred thirty-two data entries were collected from nine participants undergoing cognitive behavioral treatment for tinnitus. Eleven ...
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Newborn Hearing Screening Results of Infants Born To Mothers Who Had COVID-19 Disease During Pregnancy: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Objective:
Viral infections are known to be a risk factor for neonatal hearing loss. COVID-19 infection has been reported to affect hearing test results in one small sample sized study. We aimed to investigate the incidence the risk of neonatal hearing loss in infants of mothers who had COVID-19 infection during pregnancy, regarding their trimesters, by evaluating the neonatal hearing screening results.
Design:
In this retrospective case-control study, neonatal hearing test results of 458 women with a history of COVID-19 infection in pregnancy were compared with 339 women who gave birth before the pandemic. Data...
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Active Versus Passive Transcutaneous Bone Conduction Hearing Devices: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Conclusions:
Both active and passive tBCHDs demonstrate acceptable safety profiles and QoL improvements. Active devices may provide better hearing outcomes, especially in high frequencies, but high-quality comparative studies are lacking. Future work is needed in this regard. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Source Type: research
Dysfunction of the Auditory System in Children With Hypothyroidism: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Conclusions:
Children with hypothyroidism have a higher prevalence of hearing loss than children without hypothyroidism. For children with congenital hypothyroidism, evidence of subclinical abnormalities at the level of the cochlea and eighth cranial nerve are present despite early initiation of levothyroxine therapy. Dysfunction of the auditory system might begin with predominance of peripheral conduction abnormalities early in development. (Source: Ear and Hearing)
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Source Type: research
Cutting Through the Noise: Noise-Induced Cochlear Synaptopathy and Individual Differences in Speech Understanding Among Listeners With Normal Audiograms
Following a conversation in a crowded restaurant or at a lively party poses immense perceptual challenges for some individuals with normal hearing thresholds. A number of studies have investigated whether noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy (CS; damage to the synapses between cochlear hair cells and the auditory nerve following noise exposure that does not permanently elevate hearing thresholds) contributes to this difficulty. A few studies have observed correlations between proxies of noise-induced CS and speech perception in difficult listening conditions, but many have found no evidence of a relationship. To understand ...
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Review Source Type: research
Review of Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Usher Syndrome
Usher syndrome (USH) encompasses a group of clinically and genetically heterogenous disorders defined by the triad of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), vestibular dysfunction, and vision loss. USH is the most common cause of deaf blindness. USH is divided clinically into three subtypes—USH1, USH2, and USH3—based on symptom severity, progression, and age of onset. The underlying genetics of these USH forms are, however, significantly more complex, with over a dozen genes linked to the three primary clinical subtypes and other atypical USH phenotypes. Several of these genes are associated with other deaf-blindness syndr...
Source: Ear and Hearing - January 1, 2022 Category: Audiology Tags: Review Source Type: research
