PSYCHOACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND HEARING AIDS
The Table of Contents for the full book PDF is as follows:
Author Index
Preface
I. Psychoacoustics in normal and hearing-impaired listeners
Factors influencing loudness perception in people with cochlear hearing loss
Otoacoustic emissions from normal hearing subjects: Some experimental results in connection to psychoacoustics
Noise spectrum discrimination by severe-to-profoundly hearing-impaired listeners
Simulations of spectral masking with a model incorporating an optimal decision strategy
Perception of intensity and frequency modulation in people with normal and impaired hearing
Perception of amplitude modulated narrowband noise by sensorineural hearing-impaired listeners
Modeling modulation perception: Modulation low-pass filter or modulation filterbank?
Perceptual grouping of tone sequences in normal and impaired hearing
Workshop 1: Loudness perception in normal and hearing-impaired listeners and dynamic compression
II. Speech Perception
Computer-controlled speech audiometric techniques for the assessment of hearing loss and the evaluation of hearing aids
Adaptive estimation of psychometric functions in psychoacoustics and speech audiometry
Confusion analysis in the assessment of speech perception and hearing aids
Speech processing hearing aids for the profoundly hearing impaired
Temporal resolution and the importance of temporal envelope cues for speech perception
Considerations relative to speech intelligibility prediction and to perceptual evaluation of hearing aids
Models of speech perception and psychoacoustics
Predicted speech intelligibility and loudness in model-based preliminary hearing-aid fitting
Auditory evoked potentials during speech perception
Workshop 2: Speech perception and hearing aids
III. Dynamic Compression in Hearing Aids
DeRecruitment by multi-band compression in hearing aids
Dynamic compression hearing aids
The effects of syllabic compression on speech intelligibility in hearing impaired
Technical assessment of fast compression hearing aids
Psychophysical evaluation of fast compression systems
Perceptual models for hearing aid algorithms
Evaluation of dynamic compression algorithms using a loudness model for hearing impaired listeners
IV. Binaural processing and Noise Reduction in Hearig Aids
Binaural psychoacoustics and models
Asymmetry in interaural HRTF of dummy head and individual persons
Binaural localization model resolving front/back and up/down incidence directions
Prospects and limitations of microphone-array hearing aids
Noise reduction strategies in digital binaural hearing aids
Using multiple cues for sound source separation
Workshop 3: Binaural interaction and binaural noise reduction schemes
V. New Developments in Hearing Aid Technology
Classical solutions and new concepts in hearing aid technology
A wearable signal processor system for the evaluation of digital hearing aid algorithms
Binaural digital hearing aid simulator: Real time simulation of sound incidence, hearing aid signal processing and earmold characteristics
Free programmable wearable speech processor with two channel sound input for use with various hearing protheses
Noise reduction algorithms for cochlear implant systems
Workshop 4: Technology of hearing aids
VI. Fitting and Evaluation of Hearing Aids
Scaling methods for the selection, fitting and evaluation of hearing aids
A concept for the evaluation of hearing aid benefit
Hearing aid evaluation with categorial loudness scaling in patients with presbyacusis
Acclimatisation to monaural hearing aid fitting - effects on loudness functions and preliminary evidence for parallel electropliysiological and behavioural effects
Practical benefit of hearing aids
List of participants
Name Index
Subject Index
