Impaired noise adaptation contributes to speech intelligibility problems in people with hearing loss
Miriam I. Marrufo-Pérez, Milagros J. Fumero, Almudena Eustaquio-Martín, Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda · 2024
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Description
Miriam Marrufo-Perez and three co-authors show that ears with hearing loss fail to adjust to steady noise, in a 2024 study. Understanding speech in a noisy room is harder for hearing-impaired listeners even when the speech is loud enough to hear. Blame usually falls on distorted encoding of the speech itself.
The team measured speech thresholds for 25 hearing-aid users, with and without a one-second noise lead-in that lets normal ears adapt. Natural and tone-processed words were tested in steady speech-shaped noise. The adaptation benefit was compared with earlier data from 28 normal-hearing listeners. The impaired group gained far less from the lead-in. Hearing aids that restore this noise adaptation, not just loudness, could ease the cocktail-party problem directly.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Miriam I. Marrufo-Pérez, Milagros J. Fumero, Almudena Eustaquio-Martín, Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |