Listeners with severe-sloping losses often don’t perceive high-frequency sound cues. Conventional amplification fails to provide these cues due to loudness discomfort experienced by the listener, and/or acoustic feedback. Alternative signal-processing solutions include shifting higher frequencies down to lower frequencies, or providing electrical stimulation via a speech processor. Three experiments were carried out on adult hearing-impaired listeners to determine the best way of providing high-frequency information: conventional amplification, frequency compression or cochlear implantation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/245599 |
| Creators | Simpson, Andrea |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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