TY - JOUR
T1 - Potential Consequences of Spectral and Binaural Loudness Summation for Bilateral Hearing Aid Fitting
AU - van Beurden, Maarten
AU - Boymans, Monique
AU - van Geleuken, Mirjam
AU - Oetting, Dirk
AU - Kollmeier, Birger
AU - Dreschler, Wouter A.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Aversiveness of loud sounds is a frequent complaint by hearing aid users, especially when fitted bilaterally. This study investigates whether loudness summation can be held responsible for this finding. Two aspects of loudness summation should be taken into account: spectral loudness summation for broadband signals and binaural loudness summation for signals that are presented binaurally. In this study, the effect of different symmetrical hearing losses was studied. Measurements were obtained with the widely used technique of Adaptive Categorical Loudness Scaling. For large bandwidths, spectral loudness summation for hearing-impaired listeners was found to be greater than that for normal-hearing listeners, both for monaurally and binaurally presented signals. For binaural loudness summation, the effect of hearing loss was not significant. In all cases, individual differences were substantial.
AB - Aversiveness of loud sounds is a frequent complaint by hearing aid users, especially when fitted bilaterally. This study investigates whether loudness summation can be held responsible for this finding. Two aspects of loudness summation should be taken into account: spectral loudness summation for broadband signals and binaural loudness summation for signals that are presented binaurally. In this study, the effect of different symmetrical hearing losses was studied. Measurements were obtained with the widely used technique of Adaptive Categorical Loudness Scaling. For large bandwidths, spectral loudness summation for hearing-impaired listeners was found to be greater than that for normal-hearing listeners, both for monaurally and binaurally presented signals. For binaural loudness summation, the effect of hearing loss was not significant. In all cases, individual differences were substantial.
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30353784
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216518805690
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216518805690
M3 - Article
C2 - 30353784
SN - 2331-2165
VL - 22
JO - Trends in Hearing
JF - Trends in Hearing
ER -