Jonathan Moore argues that he actually hears better on videoconference than a traditional classroom setting because his students are sitting close to the microphone; in class, his students sometimes speak low or are seated too far away for him to hear clearly.
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Precision surgical implantation of electrodes for the electric-acoustic stimulation of the inner ear can stabilize the long-term residual hearing of severely hearing-impaired people and significantly improve their speech recognition.
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The award recognizes organizations who rethink and reengineer how they source materials, manage suppliers, manufacture products, and deliver to customers.
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Researchers identified 41 people with opioid exposure who experienced full or partial hearing loss or tinnitus, likely caused by toxicity to the ear. More than half had used heroin, followed by oxycodone, methadone, and tramadol; 88% had only one known exposure.
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Fuel Medical announced its partnership with The American Institute of Balance (AIB) to help its audiology and otolaryngology members incorporate, or expand, patient-centered, diagnostic vestibular services.
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The seminar presents how to corner the market on a new group of patients including hunters, shooters, musicians, law enforcement, motorcyclists, farmers, ranchers, dental, construction workers, pilots, and industrial workers.
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According to the company, the benefits include significant enhancements to client counseling and the ability to measure Real-Ear-to-Dial Difference (REDD).
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In what they say is the first large-scale study of the interactions between sound and robotic action, researchers at CMU’s Robotics Institute found that sounds could help a robot differentiate between objects, such as a metal screwdriver and a metal wrench. Hearing also could help robots determine what type of action caused a sound and help them use sounds to predict the physical properties of new objects.
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Long-term exposure to road traffic noise, such as living near a motorway or on a busy road, was associated with an increase in body mass index and waist circumference, which are key markers of obesity, according to an announcement on Oxford’s website.
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Beltone Imagine places a third microphone directly in the ear canal to collect sound taking advantage of the natural and unique acoustics of each person’s ear.
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This solution places an additional microphone inside the ear canal, “for the first time, allowing people relying on hearing aids to experience the world with their own ears while preserving the comfort of an open-fit device.”
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In her new role, Panko will oversee the Deaf Health Laboratory’s mission to conduct research in the deaf community on the areas of preventive health, health literacy, health knowledge, and the deaf experience in health care.
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First published in 1987, the prevailing model for how adaptation works asserted that the sound-sensitive “antenna” of the hair cell (called the hair bundle) undergoes a mechanical change during adaptation, such that a decrease in stiffness of the hair bundle caused a decrease in MET sensitivity.
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American Cochlear Implant (ACI) Alliance announced that it was awarded a grant by Oberkotter Foundation to update the seminal Project HOPE study published in 2000 by Mohr, et al.
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To understand language, we have to remember the words that were uttered and combine them into an interpretation. How does the brain retain information long enough to accomplish this, despite the fact that neuronal firing events are very short-lived?
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