Advances in the Design of Hearing Aids

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

  • Anatomy & physiology of the ear

  • Auditory pathways of the brain

  • Hearing loss

  • Historical approaches to hearing aid amplification

  • Biomedical principles for improving hearing aids

• Normal and Impaired Neural Representation of Sounds

  • Fundamental acoustic features

  • Speech

• Recent Advances in Hearing Aid Algorithms and Device Designs

  • Compensating for peripheral effects of hearing loss

  • Compensating for central effects of hearing loss

  • Device improvements

• Future Directions in Hearing Aid Design

  • Amplification & speech processing

  • Implantable components

• Summary

• References

• Review Questions