Toward an Individual Binaural Loudness Model for Hearing Aid Fitting and Development.

ABSTRACT: The individual loudness perception of a patient plays an important role in hearing aid satisfaction and use in daily life. Hearing aid fitting and development might benefit from individualized loudness models (ILMs), enabling better adaptation of the processing to individual needs. The central question is whether additional parameters are required for ILMs beyond non-linear cochlear gain loss and linear attenuation common to existing loudness models for the hearing impaired (HI). Here, loudness perception in eight normal hearing (NH) and eight HI listeners was measured in conditions ranging from monaural narrowband to binaural broadband, to systematically assess spectral and binaural loudness summation and their interdependence. A binaural summation stage was devised with empirical monaura

SUBMITTER: Pieper I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258351 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature