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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Audiology Année : 2024

Sensorineural hearing loss alters auditory discrimination of natural soundscapes

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Objective: The ability to discriminate natural soundscapes recorded in a temperate terrestrial biome was measured in 15 hearing-impaired (HI) listeners with bilateral, mild to severe sensorineural hearing loss and 15 normal-hearing (NH) controls. Design: Soundscape discrimination was measured using a three-interval oddity paradigm and the method of constant stimuli. On each trial, sequences of 2-second recordings varying the habitat, season and period of the day were presented diotically at a nominal SPL of 60 or 80 dB. Results: Discrimination scores were above chance level for both groups, but they were poorer for HI than NH listeners. On average, the scores of HI listeners were relatively well accounted for by those of NH listeners tested with stimuli spectrally-shaped to match the frequency-dependent reduction in audibility of individual HI listeners. However, the scores of HI listeners were not significantly correlated with pure-tone audiometric thresholds and age. Conclusions: These results indicate that the ability to discriminate natural soundscapes associated with changes in habitat, season and period of the day is disrupted but it is not abolished. The deficits of the HI listeners are partly accounted for by reduced audibility. Supra-threshold auditory deficits and individual listening strategies may also explain differences between NH and HI listeners
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hal-04695409 , version 1 (12-09-2024)

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Nicole Miller-Viacava, Diane Lazard, Tanguy Delmas, Bernie Krause, Frédéric Apoux, et al.. Sensorineural hearing loss alters auditory discrimination of natural soundscapes. International Journal of Audiology, 2024, 63 (10), pp.809-818. ⟨10.1080/14992027.2023.2272559⟩. ⟨hal-04695409⟩
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