Imperial College London
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Prof. Dr. Tobias Reichenbach

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering

Visiting Professor
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6370reichenbach Website

 
 
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4.12Royal School of MinesSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{BinKhamis:2019:10.1177/2331216519848297,
author = {BinKhamis, G and Forte, AE and Reichenbach, J and O'Driscoll, M and Kluk, K},
doi = {10.1177/2331216519848297},
journal = {Trends in Hearing},
pages = {1--20},
title = {Speech auditory brainstem responses in adult hearing aid users: Effects of aiding and background noise, and prediction of behavioral measures},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2331216519848297},
volume = {23},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Evaluation of patients who are unable to provide behavioral responses on standard clinical measures is challenging due to the lack of standard objective (non-behavioral) clinical audiological measures that assess the outcome of an intervention (e.g. hearing aids). Brainstem responses to short consonant-vowel stimuli (speech-ABRs) have been proposed as a measure of subcortical encoding of speech, speech detection, and speech-in-noise performance in individuals with normal hearing. Here, we investigated the potential of speech-ABRs as an objective clinical outcome measure of speech detection, speech-in-noise detection and recognition, and self-reported speech understanding in  adults with sensorineural hearing loss. We compared aided and unaided speech-ABRs, and speech-ABRs in quiet and in noise. Additionally, we evaluated whether speech-ABR F0 encoding (obtained from the complex cross-correlation with the 40 ms [da] fundamental waveform) predicted aided behavioral speech recognition in noise and/or aided self-reported speech understanding. Results showed: (i) aided speech-ABRs had earlier peak latencies, larger peak amplitudes, and larger F0 encoding amplitudes compared to unaided speech-ABRs; (ii) the addition of background noise resulted in later F0 encoding latencies, but did not have an effect on peak latencies and amplitudes, or on F0 encoding amplitudes; and (iii) speech-ABRs were not a significant predictor of any of the behavioral or self-report measures. These results show thatspeech-ABR F0 encoding is not a good predictor of speech-in-noise recognition or self reported speech understanding with hearing aids. However, our results suggest that speech- ABRs may have potential for clinical application as an objective measure of speech detection with hearing aids.
AU  - BinKhamis,G
AU  - Forte,AE
AU  - Reichenbach,J
AU  - O'Driscoll,M
AU  - Kluk,K
DO  - 10.1177/2331216519848297
EP  - 20
PY  - 2019///
SN  - 2331-2165
SP  - 1
TI  - Speech auditory brainstem responses in adult hearing aid users: Effects of aiding and background noise, and prediction of behavioral measures
T2  - Trends in Hearing
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2331216519848297
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/70227
VL  - 23
ER  -
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