TY - JOUR
T1 - Preferred overall loudness. II
T2 - Listening through hearing AIDS in field and laboratory tests
AU - Smeds, Karolina
AU - Keidser, Gitte
AU - Zakis, Justin
AU - Dillon, Harvey
AU - Leijon, Arne
AU - Grant, Frances
AU - Convery, Elizabeth
AU - Brew, Christopher
PY - 2006/1
Y1 - 2006/1
N2 - In a laboratory study, we found that normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners preferred less than normal overall calculated loudness (according to a loudness model of Moore & Glasberg, 1997). The current study verified those results using a research hearing aid. Fifteen hearing-impaired and eight normal-hearing participants used the hearing aid in the field and adjusted a volume control to give preferred loudness. The hearing aid logged the preferred volume control setting and the calculated loudness at that setting. The hearing-impaired participants preferred, in median, loudness levels of -14 phon re normal for input levels from 50 to 89 dB SPL. The normal-hearing participants preferred close to normal overall loudness. In subsequent laboratory tests, using the same hearing aid, both hearing-impaired and normal-hearing listeners preferred less than normal overall calculated loudness, and larger reductions for higher input levels. In summary, the hearing-impaired listeners preferred less than normal overall calculated loudness, whereas the results for the normal-hearing listeners were inconclusive.
AB - In a laboratory study, we found that normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners preferred less than normal overall calculated loudness (according to a loudness model of Moore & Glasberg, 1997). The current study verified those results using a research hearing aid. Fifteen hearing-impaired and eight normal-hearing participants used the hearing aid in the field and adjusted a volume control to give preferred loudness. The hearing aid logged the preferred volume control setting and the calculated loudness at that setting. The hearing-impaired participants preferred, in median, loudness levels of -14 phon re normal for input levels from 50 to 89 dB SPL. The normal-hearing participants preferred close to normal overall loudness. In subsequent laboratory tests, using the same hearing aid, both hearing-impaired and normal-hearing listeners preferred less than normal overall calculated loudness, and larger reductions for higher input levels. In summary, the hearing-impaired listeners preferred less than normal overall calculated loudness, whereas the results for the normal-hearing listeners were inconclusive.
KW - Hearing aid experience
KW - Impaired hearing
KW - Laboratory test
KW - Normal hearing
KW - Normal overall loudness
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=28844503440&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14992020500190177
DO - 10.1080/14992020500190177
M3 - Article
C2 - 16562560
AN - SCOPUS:28844503440
SN - 1499-2027
VL - 45
SP - 12
EP - 25
JO - International Journal of Audiology
JF - International Journal of Audiology
IS - 1
ER -