24 Aug

Hartmut Meister1, Moritz Wächtler1, Josef Kessler2, Martin Walger1,31Jean-Uhrmacher-Institute, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany2Department of Neurology, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany3Clinic of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cologne, Germany Listening situations with competing talkers pose high demands on both the auditory system as well as cognitive abilities. These “cocktail party situations” can be “static” …

Raul Sanchez-Lopez1,2, Gerard Encina-Llamas11Hearing Systems Section, Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark2Interacoustics Research Unit, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark A data-driven auditory profiling approach has been recently proposed to provide a more accurate and sensitive clinical evaluation of hearing. Such approach identified four different groups of hearing-impaired listeners that reflected different degrees …

Max Væhrens1, Rodrigo Ordoñez21Acoustics and Audio Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark2Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Loss of frequency selectivity can affect a person’s ability to understand speech in noisy environments. Therefore, being able to assess frequency resolution can be an important tool in the treatment of hearing disorders. In the present study …

Alex Mepham1, Yifei Bi2, Sven Mattys11Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK2College of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China Speech-in-speech masking research has identified what is known as release from linguistic masking, i.e., better speech transcription performance against maskers in unknown than known languages. To test whether native (British) …