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Area of Science:

  • Audiology
  • Neuroscience
  • Speech and Hearing Sciences

Background:

  • Sensorineural hearing loss has diverse causes and consequences.
  • Current hearing deficit characterization relies heavily on pure-tone audiometry, often overlooking perceptual deficits.
  • Existing methods struggle to represent auditory phenomena hidden by audibility loss.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a novel, data-driven approach for profiling perceptual auditory deficits.
  • To identify distinct auditory profiles based on two hypothesized types of auditory distortions.
  • To explore the potential of these profiles for enhanced hearing rehabilitation.

Main Methods:

  • Gathered data from a heterogeneous group of listeners with hearing impairments.
  • Evaluated listeners using measures of speech intelligibility, loudness perception, binaural processing, and spectrotemporal resolution.
  • Applied data-driven analysis to identify auditory distortion types and profiles.

Main Results:

  • Identified two types of auditory distortions influencing hearing deficits at threshold and suprathreshold levels.
  • Distortion type-I linked to high-frequency hearing loss, reduced temporal masking release, and poorer speech reception in noise.
  • Distortion type-II associated with low-frequency hearing loss and steep loudness functions.
  • Four distinct auditory profiles representing listener subpopulations with varying perceptual distortions were identified.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed auditory profiles offer a more comprehensive characterization of hearing impairment.
  • These profiles represent robust subpopulations of hearing-impaired listeners.
  • The four auditory profiles may form a basis for improved, profile-based hearing aid fitting and rehabilitation.