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Pamela Souza1, Gregory Ellis1, Frederick Gallun2, Richard Wright31Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA2Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA3Department of Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Clinical hearing aid fittings depend primarily on the pure-tone audiogram, and audiologists can choose among well-validated …

With Fotios Drakopoulos1, Viacheslav Vasilkov1, Heleen Van Der Biest2, Sarah Verhulst11Dept. of Information Technology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium2Dept. of Rehabilitation Sciences – Audiology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium With age, our hearing ability starts to decline; communicating in noisy environments becomes challenging, and hearing faint sounds difficult. Part of this decline stems from outer-hair-cell …

Marcos A. Cantu1, H. Steven Colburn2, Volker Hohmann11University of Oldenburg, Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics and the Cluster of Excellence Hearing4All, Oldenburg, Germany2Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston, MA, USA Interfering speech has rapid spectrotemporal fluctuations that established noise reduction algorithms have difficulty suppressing without a concomitant loss, or distortion, of binaural cues …

Raul Sanchez-Lopez1, Mengfan Wu2,3, Michal Fereczkowski2,3, Sébastien Santurette1,4, Torsten Dau1, Tobias Neher2,3 1Hearing Systems Section, Dept. of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, DK2Institute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DK3Research Unit for ORL – Head & Neck Surgery and Audiology, OdenseUniversity Hospital, Odense, DK; University of Southern Denmark, Odense, DK4Centre …

Anna Warzybok1, Florian Kramer1, David Hülsmeier1, Birger Kollmeier11Medical Physics and Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany Precise methods in audiological diagnostics and understanding the impact of threshold and suprathreshold deficits on the audiological outcomes are crucial for the individualized and successful treatment with hearing devices. Model-based approaches may support the selection and fitting …

Ruth Y. Litovsky1Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA2Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Our work focuses on patients with bilateral deafness who are eligible to receive bilateral cochlear implants (BiCIs), and patients with single-sided deafness who receive a cochlear implant (SSD-CI) in the deaf ear. In both the BiCI and SSD-CI …