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Cutting Through the Noise: Noise-Induced Cochlear Synaptopathy and Individual Differences in Speech Understanding Among Listeners With Normal Audiograms.
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Abstract
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 these mixed results, we reviewed previous studies that have examined noise-induced CS and performance on speech perception tasks in adverse listening conditions in adults with normal or near-normal hearing thresholds. Our review suggests that superficially similar speech perception paradigms used in previous investigations actually placed very different demands on sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processing. Speech perception tests that use low signal-to-noise ratios and maximize the importance of fine sensory details- specifically by using test stimuli for which lexical, syntactic, and semantic cues do not contribute to performance-are more likely to show a relationship to estimated CS levels. Thus, the current controversy as to whether or not noise-induced CS contributes to individual differences in speech perception under challenging listening conditions may be due in part to the fact that many of the speech perception tasks used in past studies are relatively insensitive to CS-induced deficits.
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