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Listening efficiency in adult cochlear-implant users compared with normally-hearing controls at ecologically relevant signal-to-noise ratios (2023)
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Perea Pérez, F., Hartley, D. E. H., Kitterick, P. T., Zekveld, A. A., Naylor, G., & Wiggins, I. M. (2023). Listening efficiency in adult cochlear-implant users compared with normally-hearing controls at ecologically relevant signal-to-noise ratios. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, Article 1214485. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1214485

Introduction: Due to having to work with an impoverished auditory signal, cochlear-implant (CI) users may experience reduced speech intelligibility and/or increased listening effort in real-world listening situations, compared to their normally-heari... Read More about Listening efficiency in adult cochlear-implant users compared with normally-hearing controls at ecologically relevant signal-to-noise ratios.

Exploring listening-related fatigue in children with and without hearing loss using self-report and parent-proxy measures (2023)
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Adams, B., Thornton, S. K., Naylor, G., Spriggs, R. V., Wiggins, I. M., & Kitterick, P. T. (2023). Exploring listening-related fatigue in children with and without hearing loss using self-report and parent-proxy measures. Frontiers in Pediatrics, 11, Article 1127578. https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2023.1127578

Children with hearing loss appear to experience greater fatigue than children with normal hearing (CNH). Listening-related fatigue is often associated with an increase in effortful listening or difficulty in listening situations. This has been observ... Read More about Exploring listening-related fatigue in children with and without hearing loss using self-report and parent-proxy measures.

Dementia and hearing-aid use: a two-way street (2022)
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Naylor, G., Dillard, L., Orrell, M., Stephan, B. C. M., Zobay, O., & Saunders, G. H. (2022). Dementia and hearing-aid use: a two-way street. Age and Ageing, 51(12), Article afac266. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac266

Objectives Hearing-aid use may reduce risk of dementia, but cognitive impairment makes use more challenging. An observed association between reduced hearing-aid use and incident dementia could reflect either or both of these causal paths. The object... Read More about Dementia and hearing-aid use: a two-way street.

A qualitative investigation of the hearing and hearing-aid related emotional states experienced by adults with hearing loss (2022)
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Holman, J. A., Ali, Y. H. K., & Naylor, G. (2022). A qualitative investigation of the hearing and hearing-aid related emotional states experienced by adults with hearing loss. International Journal of Audiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2022.2111373

Objective: Despite previous research into the psychosocial impact of hearing loss, little detail is known regarding the hearing and hearing-aid-related emotional states experienced by adults with hearing loss in everyday life, and how they occur. Des... Read More about A qualitative investigation of the hearing and hearing-aid related emotional states experienced by adults with hearing loss.

Conversation success in one-to-one and group conversation: a group concept mapping study of adults with normal and impaired hearing (2022)
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Nicoras, R., Gotowiec, S., V Hadley, L., Smeds, K., & Naylor, G. (2023). Conversation success in one-to-one and group conversation: a group concept mapping study of adults with normal and impaired hearing. International Journal of Audiology, 62(9), 868-876. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2022.2095538

Objective: The concept of conversation success is undefined, although prior work has variously related it to accurate exchange of information, alignment between interlocutors, and good management of misunderstandings. This study aimed (1) to identify... Read More about Conversation success in one-to-one and group conversation: a group concept mapping study of adults with normal and impaired hearing.

Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research: The clarity speech corpus (2022)
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Graetzer, S., Akeroyd, M. A., Barker, J., Cox, T. J., Culling, J. F., Naylor, G., …Viveros-Muñoz, R. (2022). Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research: The clarity speech corpus. Data in Brief, 41, Article 107951. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.107951

This paper presents the Clarity Speech Corpus, a publicly available, forty speaker British English speech dataset. The corpus was created for the purpose of running listening tests to gauge speech intelligibility and quality in the Clarity Project, w... Read More about Dataset of British English speech recordings for psychoacoustics and speech processing research: The clarity speech corpus.

Smartphone App–Based Noncontact Ecological Momentary Assessment With Experienced and Naïve Older Participants: Feasibility Study (2022)
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Burke, L., & Naylor, G. (2022). Smartphone App–Based Noncontact Ecological Momentary Assessment With Experienced and Naïve Older Participants: Feasibility Study. JMIR Formative Research, 6(3), Article e27677. https://doi.org/10.2196/27677

Background: Smartphone app–based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) without face-to-face contact between researcher and participant (app-based noncontact EMA) potentially provides a valuable data collection tool when geographic, time, and situati... Read More about Smartphone App–Based Noncontact Ecological Momentary Assessment With Experienced and Naïve Older Participants: Feasibility Study.

A review of theories and methods in the science of face-to-face social interaction (2022)
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Hadley, L. V., Naylor, G., & Hamilton, A. F. C. (2022). A review of theories and methods in the science of face-to-face social interaction. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, 42-54. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-021-00008-w

For most of human history, face-to-face interactions have been the primary and most fundamental way to build social relationships, and even in the digital era they remain the basis of our closest bonds. These interactions are built on the dynamic int... Read More about A review of theories and methods in the science of face-to-face social interaction.

The effect of stimulus duration on preferences for gain adjustments when listening to speech (2021)
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Whitmer, W. M., Caswell-Midwinter, B., & Naylor, G. (2022). The effect of stimulus duration on preferences for gain adjustments when listening to speech. International Journal of Audiology, 61(11), 940-947. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2021.1998676

Objectives: In the personalisation of hearing-aid fittings, gain is often adjusted to suit patient preferences using live speech. When using brief sentences as stimuli, the minimum gain adjustments necessary to elicit consistent preferences (“prefere... Read More about The effect of stimulus duration on preferences for gain adjustments when listening to speech.

Changes in Orientation Behavior due to Extended High-Frequency (5 to 10 kHz) Spatial Cues (2021)
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Whitmer, W. M., McShefferty, D., Levy, S. C., Naylor, G., & Edwards, B. (2022). Changes in Orientation Behavior due to Extended High-Frequency (5 to 10 kHz) Spatial Cues. Ear and Hearing, 43(2), 545-553. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001113

Objectives: Current hearing aids have a limited bandwidth, which limits the intelligibility and quality of their output, and inhibits their uptake. Recent advances in signal processing, as well as novel methods of transduction, allow for a greater... Read More about Changes in Orientation Behavior due to Extended High-Frequency (5 to 10 kHz) Spatial Cues.