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The Top 5 Audiology Research Articles from 2012
2012 was an impressive year for scientific publication in audiology research and hearing aids. Narrowing the selection to 15 or 20 articles was far easier than selecting 5 top contenders. After some...
View ArticleThe Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI): A New and Improved way to Evaluate Tinnitus
Meikle, M.B., Henry, J.A., Griest, S.E., Stewart, B.J., Abrams, H.B., McArdle, R., Myers, P.J., Newman, C.W., Sandridge, S., Turk, D.C., Folmer, R.L., Frederick, E.J., House, J.W., Jacobson, G.P.,...
View ArticleCan Aided Audibility Predict Pediatric Lexical Development?
Stiles, D.J., Bentler, R.A., & McGregor, K.K. (2012). The speech intelligibility index and the pure-tone average as predictors of lexical ability in children fit with hearing aids. Journal of...
View ArticleEvidence for the Value of Real-Ear Measurement
Abrams, H.B., Chisolm, T.H., McManus, M., & McArdle, R. (2012). Initial-fit approach versus verified prescription: Comparing self-perceived hearing aid benefit. Journal of the American Academy of...
View ArticleCan hearing aids reduce listening fatigue?
Hornsby, B.W.Y. (2013). The Effects of Hearing Aid Use on Listening Effort and Mental Fatigue Associated with Sustained Speech Processing Demands. Ear and Hearing, Published Ahead-of-Print. This...
View ArticleDoes lip reading take the effort out of speech understanding?
Picou, E.M., Ricketts, T.A. & Hornsby, B.W.Y. (2013). How hearing aids, background noise and visual cues influence objective listening effort. Ear and Hearing, in press. This editorial discusses...
View ArticleYou’re getting older. Are your listening demands decreasing?
Wu, Y. & Bentler, R. (2012). Do older adults have social lifestyles that place fewer demands on hearing? Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 23, 697-711. This editorial discusses the...
View ArticleHearing Aid Behavior in the Real World
Banerjee, S. (2011). Hearing aids in the real world: typical automatic behavior of expansion, directionality and noise management. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 22, 34-48. This editorial...
View ArticleHearing Aids Alone can be Adjusted to Help with Tinnitus Relief
Shekhawat, G.S., Searchfield, G.D., Kobayashi, K. & Stinear, C. (2013). Prescription of hearing aid output for tinnitus relief. International Journal of Audiology 2013, early online: 1-9. This...
View ArticleDo the benefits of tinnitus therapy increase with time?
Parazzini, M., Del Bo, L., Jastreboff, M., Tognola, G. & Ravazzani, P. (2011). Open ear hearing aids in tinnitus therapy: An efficacy comparison with sound generators. International Journal of...
View ArticlePatients with higher cognitive function may benefit more from hearing aid...
Ng, E.H.N., Rudner, M., Lunner, T., Pedersen, M.S., & Ronnberg, J. (2013). Effects of noise and working memory capacity on memory processing of speech for hearing-aid users. International Journal...
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The Top 5 Hearing Aid Research Articles from 2013!
1) The Clinical Practice Guidelines in Pediatric Amplification After a 10-year wait, the guidelines for prescription of hearing aids to children were updated in 2013—making them the most modern of any...
View ArticleShould you prescribe digital noise reduction to children?
Pittman, A. (2011). Age-related benefits of digital noise reduction for short term word learning in children with hearing loss. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 54, 1448-1463. A child’s...
View ArticleOn the Prevalence of Cochlear Dead Regions
Pepler, A., Munro, K., Lewis, K. & Kluk, K. (2014). Prevalence of Cochlear Dead Regions in New Referrals and Existing Adult Hearing Aid Users. Ear and Hearing 20(10), 1-11. This editorial discusses...
View ArticleAcclimatizing to hearing aids may not mean what you think it means
Dawes, P., Munro, K., Kalluri, S., & Edwards, B. (2014). Acclimatization to hearing aids. Ear and Hearing, Published Ahead-of-Print. This editorial discusses the clinical implications of an...
View ArticleThe most important factors behind directional microphone benefit
Keidser, G., Dillon, H., Convery, E. & Mejia, J. (2013). Factors influencing individual variation in perceptual directional microphone benefit. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 24,...
View ArticleOn the prevalence of hearing loss and barriers to hearing aid uptake
Dawes, P., Fortnum, H., Moore, D., Emsley, R., Norman, P., Cruickshanks, K., Davis, A., Edmondson-Jones, M., McCormack, A., Lutman, M. & Munro, K. (2014) Hearing in middle age: a population...
View ArticleA Pediatric Prescription for Listening in Noise
Crukley, J. & Scollie, S. (2012). Children’s speech recognition and loudness perception with the Desired Sensation Level v5 Quite and Noise prescriptions. American Journal of Audiology 21, 149-162....
View ArticleConsiderations for Music Listening
Croghan, N., Arehart, K. & Kates, J. (2014). Music preferences with hearing aids: effects of signal properties, compression settings and listener characteristics. Ear & Hearing, in press. This...
View ArticleCan hearing aid settings improve working memory?
Souza, P., & Sirow, L. (2014). Relating working memory to compression parameters in clinically-fit hearing aids. American Journal of Audiology, Just Accepted, released August 14. This editorial...
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