It's also possible that some functions of the hearing system that "balance" sounds are affected, as the brain normally sends information about loud noise back to the inner ear so that the volume can be turned down and the inner ear protected.
In addition, a perceptive correction is defined to account for the lumped effect of higher level auditory processing, motivated by the intelligibility function of the hearing impaired.
The motivations of modelling the cochlea are to represent, within one framework, the results from a large variety of experiments and to explain the functions of the hearing system.
An identical interpretation of correct responses and erroneous consonant replacements in terms of hearing performance would place disproportionate emphasis on top-down processing strategies and would thus seriously overestimate the proper functioning of the inner ear hearing mechanisms.
Then the auditory peripheral simulation model was built, which mimics the physiological functions of the human hearing, simulating the acoustic signal transfer process and conversion mechanisms from the free field to the peripheral auditory system.
In keeping with the idea of distributed functions in the hearing and language areas, research has found no structural, anatomical, or physiological criteria that precisely defined the boundaries of key brain nodes (e.g., Heschl's, Broca's and Wernicke's areas) (Bauer et al. 2003).
Regular assessment of the hearing function is very important.
c) The maximal steepness of the hearing loss function (Δ dB SPL/octave) was neither associated with the phase synchronies nor with the tinnitus intrusiveness ratings (all p>0.3).
In a study of those who do keep playing, published this summer, researchers found that as musicians age, they experience the same decline in peripheral hearing, the functioning of the nerves in their ears, as nonmusicians.
These data provide new insights into the function of external hearing structures and open up the possibility to apply the results on autonomous agents, creation of virtual auditory environments for humans, or in hearing aids.
