The effects of age and hearing impairment on the extraction of listening effort correlates
| Autor: | Daniel J. Strauss, Matthias Latzel, Farah I. Corona-Strauss, Corinna Bernarding, Harald Seidler, Ronny Hannemann, Ahmed Bellagnech, Ulrich Jobst, Markus Landwehr |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Aging Speech perception Subject group Hearing loss Objective method Audiology Middle Aged Clinical Practice medicine.anatomical_structure Hearing Impaired Persons otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Speech Perception Auditory system Humans Active listening Attention medicine.symptom Psychology Hearing Loss Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | EMBC |
| ISSN: | 2694-0604 |
| Popis: | In clinical practice, an objective method to assess listening effort is still not available. The benefit of such a measure would be to reduce the listening effort in hearing impaired persons by an adequate adaption of their personal hearing aids. In foregoing studies, we have shown that the wavelet phase synchronization stability (WPSS) of auditory late responses (ALRs) could serve as a feasible measure of listening effort. Here, tonal and noise embedded syllabic paradigms were employed to achieve ALR sequences in normal hearing subjects. The aims of this ongoing study were 1) to extract the WPSS of ALR sequences in hearing impaired persons, middle-aged normal hearing persons and younger normal hearing subjects, 2) to investigate possible age-related influences on the WPSS and 3) to examine a feasible influence of the hearing loss on the WPSS. It is concluded, that the WPSS of ALR sequences can be extracted in normal hearing as well as in hearing impaired persons. An age related effect regarding the WPSS was not noticeable and the intergroup comparison of the difference of the WPSS showed a tendency to be larger for the hearing impaired compared to the normal hearing middle-aged subjects. The latest can be interpreted that this subject group showed a larger effort to solve the auditory paradigms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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