It is rare to have a column about a review of an article—especially an article from almost 40 years ago—but the 1983 publication by Skinner and Miller is a must-read (or must re-read) article. It describes the work primarily done by Margaret (Margo) Skinner in her PhD thesis.
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For decades, feedback and occlusion had posed huge problems for hearing aid users. Today, technical advances have nearly consigned these side-effects to history.
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Oticon, Inc announced the expansion of its Oticon More family to “enable even more veterans and active duty personnel to benefit from the innovative hearing solution’s superior sound quality.” Now available through the Veterans Affairs Administration (VA), Department of Defense (DOD), and other federal agencies, the new Oticon More miniRITE T with disposable batteries and the portable SmartCharger allow VA and government audiologists to “better match each patient’s lifestyle, needs, and preferences.”
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As a step toward an advanced artificial cochlea, researchers in “ACS Nano” report a conductive membrane, which translated sound waves into matching electrical signals when implanted inside a model ear, without requiring external power.
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ReSound ONE users will be able to answer calls with a tap on their hearing aids and enjoy conversations with “outstanding sound quality — all without ever having to take their device out of their pocket,” according to the company’s announcement.
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Marking October’s National Protect Your Hearing Month, Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) announced that it is releasing the first of a new video series called “A Few Words About Hearing” that captures the stories of nine people—from all walks of life—who describe what it’s like to live with hearing damaged by loud noise.
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Signia announced that two of its latest innovations have been selected as honorees in the Consumer Electronics Show 2022 Innovation Awards.
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Widex USA Inc announced that wearers of the company’s Widex MOMENT family of hearing aids can now stream music, calls, and other content from Android smartphones, thanks to an upgrade to its Widex MOMENT App.
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The Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) AuDACITY convention is scheduled for October 25-27 at the Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront in Portland, Ore, and will highlight the many growth areas in audiology today, as well as those on the near horizon.
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Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD) announced that its Chief Marketing Officer, and longtime leader in the deaf community, Rosa Lee Timm is the new Division President for CSD’s Social Venture Fund. Timm first joined CSD in 2019 as the Chief Marketing Officer and has been an integral part of the organization’s senior leadership ever since.
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SoundGear, the official hearing protection partner of Pheasants Forever’s Habitat Organization, announced that the SoundGear Phantom, a hearing aid that offers hearing protection with “an unrivaled custom fit and Bluetooth capabilities,” is back in stock in time for October’s National Protect your Hearing Month.
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Nina Kraus, PhD, is the Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Through her research and those of her colleagues in the Kraus Lab, she has continually uncovered new findings about auditory processing and the brain, as well as our lives in sound—findings that have great consequences for young children and their exposure to music, as well as for people with language disorders, concussion, cognitive issues, hearing loss, and more.
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Sawfly larvae protect themselves by secreting cocktails of unpleasant, volatile chemicals intended to repel predators, particularly ants. Researchers can assess the effectiveness of these defense by staging meetups, so-called bioassays, between prey and predator. But entomologist Jean-Luc Boevé and informatics engineer Rudi Giot have taken a different approach, translating the secretions’ chemical composition into sounds, and measuring how humans react.
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Sounds can damage your hearing when they are too loud, even for a brief time, or loud and long-lasting. Sometimes the damage is permanent. Raising awareness about noise-induced hearing loss from all sources is the focus of National Protect Your Hearing Month, which is observed each October by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and other organizations.
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Some scientists want to go one step further and systematically manipulate the acoustic field to achieve an effect that shouldn’t exist per se, given the real-life situation. For instance, they are attempting to create an illusory audio experience that tricks the listener into believing they are in a concrete building or an old church. Alternatively, objects can be made invisible by manipulating the acoustic field in such a way that the listener no longer perceives them.
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