Robust Data-Driven Auditory Profiling Towards Precision Audiology.

ABSTRACT: The sources and consequences of a sensorineural hearing loss are diverse. While several approaches have aimed at disentangling the physiological and perceptual consequences of different etiologies, hearing deficit characterization and rehabilitation have been dominated by the results from pure-tone audiometry. Here, we present a novel approach based on data-driven profiling of perceptual auditory deficits that attempts to represent auditory phenomena that are usually hidden by, or entangled with, audibility loss. We hypothesize that the hearing deficits of a given listener, both at hearing threshold and at suprathreshold sound levels, result from two independent types of "auditory distortions." In this two-dimensional space, four distinct "auditory profiles" can be identified. To test this

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Lopez R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7720332 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature