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Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Effects of Age and Hearing Loss on the Processing of Auditory Temporal Fine Structure
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    Chapter 2 Aging Effects on Behavioural Estimates of Suppression with Short Suppressors
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    Chapter 3 Contributions of Coding Efficiency of Temporal-Structure and Level Information to Lateralization Performance in Young and Early-Elderly Listeners
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    Chapter 4 Investigating the Role of Working Memory in Speech-in-noise Identification for Listeners with Normal Hearing
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    Chapter 5 The Contribution of Auditory and Cognitive Factors to Intelligibility of Words and Sentences in Noise
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    Chapter 6 Do Hearing Aids Improve Affect Perception?
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    Chapter 7 Suitability of the Binaural Interaction Component for Interaural Electrode Pairing of Bilateral Cochlear Implants
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    Chapter 8 Binaural Loudness Constancy
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    Chapter 9 Intelligibility for Binaural Speech with Discarded Low-SNR Speech Components
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    Chapter 10 On the Contribution of Target Audibility to Performance in Spatialized Speech Mixtures
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    Chapter 11 Optimization of a Spectral Contrast Enhancement Algorithm for Cochlear Implants Based on a Vowel Identification Model
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    Chapter 12 Roles of the Contralateral Efferent Reflex in Hearing Demonstrated with Cochlear Implants
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    Chapter 13 Deactivating Cochlear Implant Electrodes Based on Pitch Information for Users of the ACE Strategy
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    Chapter 14 Speech Masking in Normal and Impaired Hearing: Interactions Between Frequency Selectivity and Inherent Temporal Fluctuations in Noise
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    Chapter 15 Effects of Pulse Shape and Polarity on Sensitivity to Cochlear Implant Stimulation: A Chronic Study in Guinea Pigs
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    Chapter 16 Assessing the Firing Properties of the Electrically Stimulated Auditory Nerve Using a Convolution Model
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    Chapter 17 Modeling the Individual Variability of Loudness Perception with a Multi-Category Psychometric Function
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    Chapter 18 Auditory fMRI of Sound Intensity and Loudness for Unilateral Stimulation
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    Chapter 19 Tinnitus- and Task-Related Differences in Resting-State Networks
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    Chapter 20 The Role of Conduction Delay in Creating Sensitivity to Interaural Time Differences
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    Chapter 21 Objective Measures of Neural Processing of Interaural Time Differences
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    Chapter 22 Minimum Audible Angles Measured with Simulated Normally-Sized and Oversized Pinnas for Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Test Subjects
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    Chapter 23 Moving Objects in the Barn Owl’s Auditory World
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    Chapter 24 Change Detection in Auditory Textures
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    Chapter 25 The Relative Contributions of Temporal Envelope and Fine Structure to Mandarin Lexical Tone Perception in Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder
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    Chapter 26 Interaction of Object Binding Cues in Binaural Masking Pattern Experiments
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    Chapter 27 Speech Intelligibility for Target and Masker with Different Spectra
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    Chapter 28 Dynamics of Cochlear Nonlinearity
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    Chapter 29 Responses of the Human Inner Ear to Low-Frequency Sound
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    Chapter 30 Suppression Measured from Chinchilla Auditory-Nerve-Fiber Responses Following Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Adaptive-Tracking and Systems-Identification Approaches
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    Chapter 31 Does Signal Degradation Affect Top–Down Processing of Speech?
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    Chapter 32 The Effect of Peripheral Compression on Syllable Perception Measured with a Hearing Impairment Simulator
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    Chapter 33 Towards Objective Measures of Functional Hearing Abilities
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    Chapter 34 Connectivity in Language Areas of the Brain in Cochlear Implant Users as Revealed by fNIRS
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    Chapter 35 Isolating Neural Indices of Continuous Speech Processing at the Phonetic Level
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    Chapter 36 Entracking as a Brain Stem Code for Pitch: The Butte Hypothesis
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    Chapter 37 Can Temporal Fine Structure and Temporal Envelope be Considered Independently for Pitch Perception?
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    Chapter 38 Locating Melody Processing Activity in Auditory Cortex with Magnetoencephalography
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    Chapter 39 Studying Effects of Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation on Hearing and Auditory Scene Analysis
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    Chapter 40 Functional Organization of the Ventral Auditory Pathway
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    Chapter 41 Neural Segregation of Concurrent Speech: Effects of Background Noise and Reverberation on Auditory Scene Analysis in the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus
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    Chapter 42 Audio Visual Integration with Competing Sources in the Framework of Audio Visual Speech Scene Analysis
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    Chapter 43 Relative Pitch Perception and the Detection of Deviant Tone Patterns
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    Chapter 44 Do Zwicker Tones Evoke a Musical Pitch?
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    Chapter 45 Speech Coding in the Midbrain: Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss
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    Chapter 46 Sources of Variability in Consonant Perception and Implications for Speech Perception Modeling
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    Chapter 47 On Detectable and Meaningful Speech-Intelligibility Benefits
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    Chapter 48 Individual Differences in Behavioural Decision Weights Related to Irregularities in Cochlear Mechanics
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    Chapter 49 On the Interplay Between Cochlear Gain Loss and Temporal Envelope Coding Deficits
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    Chapter 50 Frequency Tuning of the Efferent Effect on Cochlear Gain in Humans
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Chapter title
Intelligibility for Binaural Speech with Discarded Low-SNR Speech Components
Chapter number 9
Book title
Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing
Published in
Advances in experimental medicine and biology, April 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25474-6_9
Pubmed ID
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-925472-2, 978-3-31-925474-6
Authors

Esther Schoenmaker, Steven van de Par

Editors

Pim van Dijk, Deniz Başkent, Etienne Gaudrain, Emile de Kleine, Anita Wagner, Cris Lanting

Abstract

Speech intelligibility in multitalker settings improves when the target speaker is spatially separated from the interfering speakers. A factor that may contribute to this improvement is the improved detectability of target-speech components due to binaural interaction in analogy to the Binaural Masking Level Difference (BMLD). This would allow listeners to hear target speech components within specific time-frequency intervals that have a negative SNR, similar to the improvement in the detectability of a tone in noise when these contain disparate interaural difference cues. To investigate whether these negative-SNR target-speech components indeed contribute to speech intelligibility, a stimulus manipulation was performed where all target components were removed when local SNRs were smaller than a certain criterion value. It can be expected that for sufficiently high criterion values target speech components will be removed that do contribute to speech intelligibility. For spatially separated speakers, assuming that a BMLD-like detection advantage contributes to intelligibility, degradation in intelligibility is expected already at criterion values below 0 dB SNR. However, for collocated speakers it is expected that higher criterion values can be applied without impairing speech intelligibility. Results show that degradation of intelligibility for separated speakers is only seen for criterion values of 0 dB and above, indicating a negligible contribution of a BMLD-like detection advantage in multitalker settings. These results show that the spatial benefit is related to a spatial separation of speech components at positive local SNRs rather than to a BMLD-like detection improvement for speech components at negative local SNRs.

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Student > Postgraduate 2 22%
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Student > Ph. D. Student 1 11%
Professor 1 11%
Other 1 11%
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