ArticleThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America2020
Binaural sensitivity and release from speech-on-speech masking in listeners with and without hearing loss.
Article in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Effects of reverberation and binaural sensitivity on spatial release from masking.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2025Article
- Binaural speech intelligibility for combinations of noise, reverberation, and hearing-aid signal processing.PloS one · 2025Article
- Spatial selective auditory attention is preserved in older age but is degraded by peripheral hearing loss.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Effects of better-ear glimpsing, binaural unmasking, and spectral resolution on spatial release from masking in cochlear-implant users.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2022Article
- Factors underlying masking release by voice-gender differences and spatial separation cues in multi-talker listening environments in listeners with and without hearing loss.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Individual differences in speech intelligibility at a cocktail party: A modeling perspective.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- Benefits of triple acoustic beamforming during speech-on-speech masking and sound localization for bilateral cochlear-implant users.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2021Article
- Impaired Binaural Hearing in Adults: A Selected Review of the Literature.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Spectro-temporal weighting of interaural time differences in speech.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020Article
- The Effect of Sound Localization on Auditory-Only and Audiovisual Speech Recognition in a Simulated Multitalker Environment.Trends in hearingArticle
- Effects of Hearing Loss on Interaural Time Difference Sensitivity at Low and High Frequencies.Trends in hearingArticle
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Abstract
Listeners with sensorineural hearing loss routinely experience less spatial release from masking (SRM) in speech mixtures than listeners with normal hearing. Hearing-impaired listeners have also been shown to have degraded temporal fine structure (TFS) sensitivity, a consequence of which is degraded access to interaural time differences (ITDs) contained in the TFS. Since these "binaural TFS" cues are critical for spatial hearing, it has been hypothesized that degraded binaural TFS sensitivity accounts for the limited SRM experienced by hearing-impaired listeners. In this study, speech stimuli were noise-vocoded using carriers that were systematically decorrelated across the left and right ears, thus simulating degraded binaural TFS sensitivity. Both (1) ITD sensitivity in quiet and (2) SRM in speech mixtures spatialized using ITDs (or binaural release from masking; BRM) were measured as a function of TFS interaural decorrelation in young normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. This allowed for the examination of the relationship between ITD sensitivity and BRM over a wide range of ITD thresholds. This paper found that, for a given ITD sensitivity, hearing-impaired listeners experienced less BRM than normal-hearing listeners, suggesting that binaural TFS sensitivity can account for only a modest portion of the BRM deficit in hearing-impaired listeners. However, substantial individual variability was observed.
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