title: Better-ear glimpsing in hearing-impaired listeners.
abstract: When competing speech sounds are spatially separated, listeners can make use of the ear with the better target-to-masker ratio. Recent studies showed that listeners with normal hearing are able to efficiently make use of this "better-ear," even when it alternates between left and right ears at different times in different frequency bands, which may contribute to the ability to listen in spatialized speech mixtures. In the present study, better-ear glimpsing in listeners with bilateral sensorineural hearing impairment, who perform poorly in spatialized speech mixtures, was investigated. The results suggest that this deficit is not related to better-ear glimpsing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and Hearing Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 ginbest@bu.edu, cmason@bu.edu, gkidd@bu.edu.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Best
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and Hearing Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 ginbest@bu.edu, cmason@bu.edu, gkidd@bu.edu.
authors.forename: Christine R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Mason
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and Hearing Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 ginbest@bu.edu, cmason@bu.edu, gkidd@bu.edu.
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kidd
authors.affiliation: Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio 45433 nandini.iyer.2@us.af.mil.
authors.forename: Nandini
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Iyer
authors.affiliation: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20889 Douglas.S.Brungart.civ@health.mil.
authors.forename: Douglas S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Brungart
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001302:Audiometry, Speech; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006312:Hearing Loss, Bilateral / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D055815:Young Adult