Researchers from the University of Maryland found that age-related problems with understanding speech are due to the inability to hear at certain volumes and also because the aging brain is not able to correctly interpret the meaning of sound signals.
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A new discovery by scientists at the University of California could help find biomarkers for targeted drug therapies for people with single-sided deafness (SSD), and may also pave the way for the development of brain stimulation therapies to restore normal auditory processing.
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Meditation has been shown to cause physiological and neurological changes, enhancing a range of cognitive processes and self-regulation abilities, including temporal resolution ability, speech perception in noise, cognition, and auditory processing.
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A study from the University of Washington (UW) has shown that play sessions with music improved 9-month-old babies’ brain processing of both music and new speech sounds, supporting the importance of early experiences in music programs.
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Effortful listening and cognitive load negatively impact simultaneous mental processes, leading to listening fatigue, and often to rejection of hearing aids. A study using EEG activity to assess listening suggests that Signia primax hearing aids reduce listening effort.
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Signia, the new hearing aid brand from Sivantos, has unveiled primax, described as the company’s most advanced hearing aid platform to date, and the first technology clinically proven by independent studies to reduce listening effort throughout the day while providing “better than normal” hearing in challenging listening environments.
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About 3,200 practice owners and industry guests attended the third biennial Starkey Hearing Innovations Expo in Las Vegas on January 20-23 where they were treated to information from Presidents Clinton and Bush, stars from the hit TV series Shark Tank, Magic Johnson, Ben Affleck, several bestselling authors, as well as some of the field’s best researchers.
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UCSF reports that new intracranial and electroencephalogram (EEG) research, published in a September 23, 2015 online article in The Journal of Neuroscience, supports the neural noise hypothesis that the signal-to-noise ratio in nerve circuits diminishes with aging, leading to diminished performance.
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Starkey’s update to the TruLink 2.1 app enables its Halo hearing aids to work with the Apple Watch and select smart watches from Android Wear and Pebble.
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European experts examine the potential impact of inaudible sounds from wind farms and modern technology on health and hearing. They have extended their study of infrasound and ultrasound to include an examination of the psychological effects of inaudible sounds.
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Neuroscience researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in Switzerland have confirmed that speech produces an electrical activity in neuronal circuits that can be measured in the form of cortical oscillations, or brain waves. Their study confirms the significance of certain brain waves and how they must synchronize to decipher spoken language.
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Scientists are investigating auditory central processing in an effort to better understand whether our expectations of sound affect how, and what, we hear. Bournemouth University and Heidelberg University researchers are using computational neuroscience models to map the way the brain processes sound.
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Researchers from the University of Colorado exploring how our brains respond to hearing loss have found that the brain reorganizes, which may be related to a link between age-related hearing loss and dementia. The research was presented at the 169th ASA Meeting in May.
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BusinessKorea reports that Samsung will be entering the hearing healthcare market, which jibes with several reports from reliable sources in the hearing industry.
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Brandon Sawalich, senior vice president at Starkey Hearing Technologies, was named one of Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” honorees at the awards ceremony on March 5, 2015.
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