Objectives: To identify the incidence of specific abnormal impedance patterns or electrode faults, and determine their implication and significance, in a pediatric population of cochlear implant recipients. Design: Nine hundred fifty-six cochlear implant devices (621 recipients) were included in this retrospective study. Devices were included if the implantation surgery was performed at our tertiary care hospital, and the recipient was 21 years of age or younger at the time the device was...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: Speech comprehension under “cocktail party” scenarios deteriorates with age even in the absence of measurable hearing loss. Musical training is suggested to counteract the age-related decline in speech-in-noise (SIN) perception, yet which aspect of musical plasticity contributes to this compensation remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the effects of musical experience and aging on SIN perception ability. We hypothesized a key mediation role of auditory working memory in...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: This study aimed to create an objective predictive model for assessing the functional status of the cochlear nerve (CN) in individual cochlear implant (CI) users. Design: Study participants included 23 children with cochlear nerve deficiency (CND), 29 children with normal-sized CNs (NSCNs), and 20 adults with various etiologies of hearing loss. Eight participants were bilateral CI users and were tested in both ears. As a result, a total of 80 ears were tested in this study. All...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: Recent studies have shown that cochlear duct length (CDL) varies among individuals and could significantly influence the final position of the electrode and its trajectory in the cochlea. Given this, we hypothesized that the degree of modiolar proximity of novel slim modiolar electrodes, such as CI532 and CI632, can also be affected by CDL. To test this hypothesis, we retrospectively evaluated individual CDL to determine if there is any significant correlation of CDL with degree of...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: Emotional and psychological well-being are essential to overall health, but there is little research showing how to approach emotional and psychological concerns in the audiological setting. This study investigated audiologists’ self-reported clinical behaviors in response to emotional and psychological concerns and/or symptoms raised by audiology clients. Design: A sample of 83 Australia-based audiologists completed a survey including vignettes presenting older adults with hearing...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: Understanding speech in adverse listening environments is challenging for older adults. Individual differences in pure tone averages and working memory are known to be critical indicators of speech in noise comprehension. Recent studies have suggested that tracking of the speech envelope in cortical oscillations
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: (1) To correlate simultaneously recorded intra- and extracochlear electrocochleography (ECochG) signals during electrode insertion into the cochlea, (2) to track changes in the ECochG signal during insertion and removal of an electrode, and (3) to correlate the findings with the preoperative residual hearing. We hypothesized that intracochlear ECochG recordings show signal changes not reflected in simultaneous extracochlear ECochG recordings. Design: During cochlear implantation...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: The aim of this study was to perform a cross-language comparison of two commonly used sentence-recognition materials (i.e., Hearing in Noise Test [HINT] and AzBio) in American English (AE) and Mandarin Chinese (MC). Designs: Sixty normal-hearing, native English-speaking and 60 normal-hearing, native Chinese-speaking young adults were recruited to participate in three experiments. In each experiment, the subjects were tested in their native language. In experiments I and II, noise...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: The association between hearing loss and risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure (BP), has been evaluated in numerous studies. However, data from population- and laboratory-based studies remain inconclusive. Furthermore, most prior work has focused on the effects of BP level on behavioral hearing sensitivity. In this study, we investigated cochlear integrity using distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) in persons with subtle elevation in BP...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: To evaluate (1) the accuracy of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard ISO 1999 [(2013), International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland] predictions of noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) in workers exposed to various types of high-intensity noise levels, and (2) the role of the kurtosis metric in assessing noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). Design: Audiometric and shift-long noise exposure data were acquired from a population...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
Objectives: Individuals with early- and late-onset deafness showed different functional and morphological brain changes, but white matter alterations in both deaf groups still need to be elucidated. This study aimed to investigate changes in white matter integrity and white matter anatomical connectivity in both early- and late-onset deaf groups compared with hearing group. Design: Diffusion tensor imaging data from 7 early-onset deaf (50.7 ± 6.5 years), 11 late-onset deaf (50.9 ± 12.3 years),...
Fri Aug 21, 2020 03:00
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