Evaluation of Hearing Aid Amplification on Auditory Feedback during the Production of Music for Hearing-Impaired Musicians
| Autor: | Lesimple, Christophe, Tantau, Julie, Simon, Barbara |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Forum Acusticum Forum Acusticum, Dec 2020, Lyon, France. pp.1021-1028, ⟨10.48465/fa.2020.0019⟩ |
| DOI: | 10.48465/fa.2020.0019⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; Musicians use multi-sensory feedback to control their sound production. In this context, auditory feedback plays a major role in identifying changes in dynamics, pitch, duration, and timbre, which allows them to adjust motoric control to match the expected tone. Alteration of auditory feedback, e.g. with ear plugs, produces changes in dynamics and timbre while the musicians are playing. Our assumption is that hearing loss alters auditory feedback in a similar way, but by wearing hearing aids, some of these deficits might be returned. Amplification could therefore cause changes to acoustical characteristics of music while being played. Musicians with hearing loss ranging from mild to severe were recorded with and without hearing aids. The subjects were asked to repeat short musical patterns with dynamics from piano to forte. Amplitude and frequency content were analyzed for each test condition. The effect of hearing loss, amount of amplification, instrument range, and instrument type were also included as explanatory variables in the model. Our results suggest that the dynamic range is extended, especially for the softer dynamics, with amplification. This change is directly dependent on the degree of hearing loss which may affect the aided auditory feedback for musicians. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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