Browsing by Subject "Audiology"
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CHANGES IN COCHLEAR FUNCTION AND SYNAPTIC PROTEIN EXPRESSION IN NOISE INDUCED COCHLEAR SYNAPTOPATHY
(2018-02-16)As people age, the ability to understand fast speech and discern conversation in background noise becomes more difficult, despite normal audiological testing results. Perceptual difficulties in subjects with normal audiometric ... -
Have You Heard About Hearing Loss, Hearing Aid Use, And Cognitive Decline? Relationships, Mechanisms, And A Proposed Investigation Using Event-Related Potentials
(2021-06-02)This thesis summarizes and analyses the literature surrounding hearing loss (HL), hearing aid (HA) use, and cognition. While the literature investigating human cognition shows a clear relationship between HL and dementia ... -
The Perception and Neural Representation of Individual Harmonics in a Vowel Sound: A Behavioral and Auditory Brainstem Evoked Response Study
(2012-01-12)Vowel perception primarily depends on the overall shape of the speech spectrum, which is imposed by the positions of the primary speech articulators. Voiced vowels also have a harmonic fine structure due to the activity ... -
PERIODICITY ENVELOPE ENCODING: EVIDENCE FOR TWO SITES OF INTRODUCTION
(2015-04-06)The Envelope Following Response (EFR) has been under investigation as part of the ASSR evoked potential but it is unclear where exactly this periodicity envelope originates. The commonly accepted theory holds that the ...